Question

葬 ほうむ.る interment, bury, shelve 1 754 12 140 くさ・くさかんむり 会意 Compound Ideographic I imagine an interment as a funeral. At this funeral it´s an open casket, and the dead body (death) is holding flowers with both of its hands.

Accepted Answer

ソウ はふり 葬式(そうしき): funeral葬る(ほうむる): to bury; to inter; to entomb; to consign to oblivion; to shelve S 艸: grass; plants; grass radical (no. 140)死: death; die廾: twenty; 20; twenty or letter H radical (no. 55) 艸 6 (none) interment During the interment ceremony, the grandchildren placed flowers over the dead body while the widow sat praying with two hands.

Kanji	葬
Onyomi	ソウ
Kunyomi	ほうむ.る
Nanori	はふり
English	interment, bury, shelve
Examples	葬式(そうしき): funeral 葬る(ほうむる): to bury; to inter; to entomb; to consign to oblivion; to shelve
JLPT Level	1
Jouyou Grade	S
Frequency	754
Components	艸: grass; plants; grass radical (no. 140) 死: death; die 廾: twenty; 20; twenty or letter H radical (no. 55)
Number of Strokes	12
Kanji Radical	艸
Radical Number	140
Radical Strokes	6
Radical Reading	くさ・くさかんむり
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	interment
Koohii Story 1	I imagine an interment as a funeral. At this funeral it´s an open casket, and the dead body (death) is holding flowers with both of its hands.
Koohii Story 2	During the interment ceremony, the grandchildren placed flowers over the dead body while the widow sat praying with two hands.

Interment Shelve Funeral Radical Dead Body Flowers Hands