fén

grave

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

賁 sound component

  Sound component

bēn

  

forge ahead

Evolution

墳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
墳 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
墳 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

fén

grave, mound; bulge; bulging; grave; tomb; CL:[zuò]; embankment; mound; ancient book

Most common words with 墳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

坟墓

grave

grave

自掘坟墓

to dig one's own grave

坟地

graveyard

祖坟

ancestral tomb

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.4712% of movies

2231st most common character in movies

2370th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+58B3

Shuowen

“墳,墓也。从土,賁聲。”


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