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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

754 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: interment, bury, shelve

Kunyomi: ほうむ.る

Onyomi: ソウ

Composition: 艹 死 廾

葬

Radical

Radical: 艸

Meaning: grass

Reading: くさ

艸

Examples

Onyomi Examples

葬 (ソウ) funeral

葬儀 (ソウギ) funeral, funeral service

火葬 (カソウ) cremation

葬送 (ソウソウ) attending a funeral procession, seeing off the deceased, burial of someone's remains, observing a burial

Kunyomi Examples

葬る (ほうむる) to bury, to inter, to entomb, to cover up, to hush up, to shelve

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