坟
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grave; tomb; CL:座[zuo4]; embankment; mound; ancient book
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 土 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 墳
- Common rank
- #2,641
- Unicode
- U+575F
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Formation & memory
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Words with 坟
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 集体坟墓 | mass grave | |
| 寿王坟 | Shouwangfen town, in Chengde 承德市[Cheng2 de2 shi4], Hebei | |
| 坟山 | hill cemetery; graveyard; grave; grave mound; low wall at the back of a traditional tomb | |
| 坟头 | burial mound | |
| 坟地 | graveyard; cemetery | |
| 上坟 | to visit a grave | |
| 平坟 | to remove graves; tomb removal | |
| 坟场 | cemetery | |
| 坟包 | grave mound | |
| 祖坟 | ancestral tomb | |
| 自掘坟墓 | to dig one's own grave | |
| 坟丘 | a tomb | |
| 坟穴 | grave | |
| 坟墓 | grave; tomb | |
| 挖坟 | to dig a grave; (lit.) to dig up a grave; (fig.) (slang) to dig up an old thread (in an on… | |
| 坟茔 | grave; tomb; graveyard; cemetery; fig. one's native place (where one's ancestors are burie… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 文 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文 sound part | culture, literature, writing | |
| 纹 | line, stripe; pattern, decoration; wrinkle | |
| 刘 | to kill, to destroy; surname | |
| 蚊 | mosquito, gnat | |
| 汶 | a river in Shandong province | |
| 忞 | to psych up; to steel one's nerves | |
| 紊 | tangled; confused, disordered | |
| 玟 | gem, jade-like stone | |
| 炆 | to simmer, to cook over a slow fire | |
| 雯 | cloud patterns; storm clouds |