Meanings
- bury
- be filled up
- embedded
埋 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning bury, be filled up, embedded, written with 10 strokes. It is read マイ (on) and うめる, うまる, うもれる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 埋める (うめる, to bury) and 埋蔵 (まいぞう, burying in the ground).
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.
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The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.
to bury (e.g. in the ground)
to be buried; to be covered; to be surrounded
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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.