埋
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to bury
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 土 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 埋
- Common rank
- #1,986
- Unicode
- U+57CB
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Formation & memory
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Words with 埋
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 埋头苦干 | to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work; to make an all-out effort; up to… | |
| 十面埋伏 | Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece); House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimo… | |
| 埋天怨地 | lit. to blame the heavens and reproach the earth; fig. to rave and rant | |
| 打埋伏 | to lie in wait; to ambush; to conceal sth | |
| 埋头 | to immerse oneself in; engrossed in sth; to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain); countersu… | |
| 隐迹埋名 | to live incognito | |
| 埋点 | (web analytics) event tracking; event | |
| 埋线 | sunken cord (used in bookbinding) | |
| 埋名 | to conceal one's identity; to live incognito | |
| 埋单 | to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese); (fig.) to bear responsibi… | |
| 葬玉埋香 | lit. burying jade and interring incense (idiom); funeral for a beautiful person | |
| 包埋 | to embed | |
| 活埋 | to bury alive | |
| 压埋 | to crush and bury | |
| 埋首 | to immerse oneself in (one's work, studies etc) | |
| 落埋怨 | to get blamed | |
| 埋没 | to engulf; to bury; to overlook; to stifle; to neglect; to fall into oblivion | |
| 隐名埋姓 | see 隱姓埋名|隐姓埋名[yin3 xing4 mai2 ming2] | |
| 隐姓埋名 | to conceal one's identity; living incognito | |
| 埋藏 | to bury; to hide by burying; hidden |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 里 — compare how they read.