埋mái
to bury. 10 strokes, radical 土, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin máiStrokes 10Radical 土Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 埋
Strokes 1–3 write 土, then strokes 4–10 write 里.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 埋 · the stroke-order rules
What 埋 is made of
土 (tǔ, soil) and 里 (lǐ, unit of distance equal to 0.5km).
土 carries the meaning — earth — and 里 carries the sound.
Words that use 埋
| 埋 | to bury 指把东西藏进土里 墙角埋着一只旧录音机。An old tape recorder lay buried in the corner of the wall. Lesson 617, 旅店旧车 · 德润人心与经世致用 · Moral Governance & Civic Stewardship |
Characters that share the sound part 里
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 土
All 34 of them, and what the radical means, on the 土 radical page.