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Meaning of 冢

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(Trad.: 塚)
Pinyin: zhǒng
English Definition: variant of ; burial mound; mound; burial mound; senior (i.e. eldest child or senior in rank)
Chinese Definition:
①坟墓:古冢。荒冢。衣冠冢。青冢。丛冢。
②长:冢子(长子)。冢嗣(嫡长子)。冢妇(嫡长子的妻子)。冢息(长子)。
③大:冢君(大君,对列国君主的敬称)。冢祀(帝王在宗庙举行的大祭礼)。
④山顶。
Total strokes: 10; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (shroud) conveys the meaning.
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Example Words
衣冠冢 guān zhǒng cenotaph
丛冢 cóng zhǒng mass grave; cluster of graves
冢中枯骨 zhǒng zhōng dried bones in burial mound (idiom); dead and buried
大冢 zhǒng Ōtsuka (Japanese surname)
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Example Sentences
1
A double rainbow frames termite mounds in Australia's grasslands.
2
1973
Since in 1973, the safety aspects of genetic engineering have been the subject of considerable debate in many countries.
3
Well, "Home Burial" is a poem about the limits of work, the inability of the worker to bring a knowable world, a safe world, into being.
4
Then, decades later, he was exhumed, and his coffin was cut open to make sure he was really there.
5
In short, the only thing to do in life is to provide, and provide is just what you cannot ever adequately do, as the husband in "Home Burial" knows.