mái, mán
bury
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m.rˤə | meaj | mái | bury |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 20.9515% of movies
1447th most common character in movies
1640th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+57CB |
Shuowen | “薶,瘞也。从艸,貍聲。” |
Sources
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