茔
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Meaning: a grave
💡 Grass (艹) on a grave (冖) with fire (火) underneath? Actually, it's just grass over a grave.
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Character Story & Explanation
茔 (yíng) means 'a grave' or 'graveyard'. It combines the radical 艹 (grass) suggesting a burial mound covered with grass, and the phonetic component 荧 (yíng). This character appears in formal contexts like historical texts or cemetery names. For example, 祖茔 means 'ancestral grave'. In Chinese culture, 茔 emphasizes respect for the deceased.
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