Chinese Character Wiki

墓

mù

grave

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

莫 sound component

莫  Sound component

mò

  

do not

Evolution

墓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
墓 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
墓 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
墓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

墓  

mù

grave, tomb; grave; tomb; mausoleum

Most common words with 墓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

墓

grave

坟墓

grave

墓地

cemetery

墓碑

gravestone

公墓

public cemetery

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.mˤak-s

muH

mù

grave (n.)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 11.1485% of movies

1720th most common character in movies

1816th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5893

Shuowen

“墓，丘也。从土，莫聲。”


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