Chinese symbol for “bury”
埋
mái
to bury
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bury is 埋 (mái), defined as: to bury.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bury”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 葬 | zàng | to bury (the dead); to inter |
| 埋葬 | mái zàng | to bury |
| 掩埋 | yǎn mái | to bury |
| 安葬 | ān zàng | to bury (the dead) |
| 埋藏 | mái cáng | to bury; to hide by burying |
Related words
Other words that share a character 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bury”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.