Kanji1 / 12
葬 kanji
interment, bury, shelve
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ソウ
Kun readings
ほうむる
Variant forms
塟Words with 葬
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —合同葬group funeral; mass funeral; single funeral service held for several people
- —葬式鉄railfans who gather at the decommissioning of a train or line
- —国葬儀state funeral
- —埋葬者the entombed; the person buried (in a burial mound, etc.)
- —葬儀車hearse
- —葬式仏教funeral Buddhism; modern day Buddhism in Japan that focuses on the lucrative performing of funeral ceremonies over teaching enlightenment
- —土葬墓地graveyard; burial ground; cemetery
- —葬儀委員funeral committee
- —葬送行進曲funeral journey; funeral march
- —送葬attending a funeral procession; seeing off the deceased; burial of someone's remains; observing a burial
- —葬殮burying (a corpse); entombing; interring; funeral; burial
- —葬頭川Sanzu River (Japanese Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx); River of Three Crossings
- —御葬式funeral