Japanese symbol for “burying”
埋設
まいせつ
Romaji: maisetsu
laying underground (e.g. cables); burying (e.g. pipe)
In Japanese, burying is 埋設, read まいせつ (maisetsu).
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Meanings
- n, vs, vt laying underground (e.g. cables); burying (e.g. pipe)
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “burying”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 清算 | せいさん seisan | ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past) |
| 地下化 | ちかか chikaka | burying; underground installation (cables, etc.) |
| 葬斂 | そうれん souren | burying (a corpse); entombing; interring |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 埋める | うめる umeru | to bury (e.g. in the ground) |
| 埋め立て | うめたて umetate | land reclamation; land fill |
| 埋葬 | まいそう maisou | burial |
| 埋まる | うまる umaru | to be buried; to be covered; to be surrounded |
| 埋蔵 | まいぞう maizou | burying in the ground |
| 穴埋め | あなうめ anaume | filling (up) a hole |
| 設定 | せってい settei | establishment; creation; posing (a problem) |
| 施設 | しせつ shisetsu | facility; facilities; institution |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.