埋 — Chinese character
埋
mái
to bury; to conceal; to plant
- Pinyin
- mái
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 土 里
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 里
- Japanese
- 埋 as a kanji
Common words with 埋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 埋葬 | mái zàng | to bury |
| 埋怨 | mán yuàn | to complain; to grumble (about) |
| 埋伏 | mái fú | to ambush; to lie in wait for |
| 掩埋 | yǎn mái | to bury |
| 活埋 | huó mái | to bury alive |
| 埋藏 | mái cáng | to bury; to hide by burying |
| 埋头 (埋頭) | mái tóu | to immerse oneself in; engrossed in sth |
| 埋没 (埋沒) | mái mò | to engulf; to bury |
| 埋单 (埋單) | mái dān | to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese); (fig.) to bear responsibility |
| 埋头苦干 (埋頭苦幹) | mái tóu kǔ gàn | to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work; to make an all-out effort |
| 隐姓埋名 (隱姓埋名) | yǐn xìng mái míng | to conceal one's identity; living incognito |
| 埋设 (埋設) | mái shè | to install (water pipes, landmines etc) underground |
English words written with 埋
埋 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1 · Zhuangzi 3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.