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The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

869 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: hillock, mound

Kunyomi: つか, -づか

Onyomi: チョウ

Composition: 土 冢

塚

Radical

Radical: 土

Meaning: earth

Reading: つち

Frequency: 580

Alternative forms:

(alt radical position hen)

土

Examples

Onyomi Examples

陪塚 (バイチョウ) subsidiary burial mound (Kofun period), satellite burial mound

Kunyomi Examples

塚 (つか) mound, heap, hillock, burial mound, tomb, tumulus, barrow, gravesite, standing stone, stone signpost, roadside stone statue

塚穴 (つかあな) grave

高塚 (たかつか) tumulus, burial mound

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