薶
máiwō

to bury

A fox 貍 burying something in the grass 艹

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass
貍
貍 Meaning component
lí, mái, yù a fox-like animal

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartmɛjm.rˤəbury
Zhengzhangmrɯː

說文解字

瘞也。从艸貍聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)