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扫墓 (sǎo mù): meaning and stroke order

扫墓 (sǎo mù) means to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person).

扫墓

Simplified
扫墓
Traditional
掃墓
Pinyin
sǎo mù

Stroke order of 扫墓

扫

  • sǎo to sweep (with a brush or broom); to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of
  • sào (bound form) a (large) broom
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 掃

Stroke by stroke

墓

  • mù grave; tomb
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 扫墓

  1. sǎo mù Traditional 掃墓
    • to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person)

Radicals of the characters

扫
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 6 strokes · 扌 on the left, 𫜹 on the right
墓
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 14 strokes · 莫 on top, 土 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

扫墓 in our stories

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  • 寒食之后的第二天，就是清明。两千多年过去了，人们在这个时节扫墓、插柳，纪念的不只是逝去的亲人，也有那句“常清明”的嘱托。

    hánshí zhīhòu de dì-èr tiān jiùshì qīngmíng liǎngqiān duō nián guòqu le rénmen zài zhè gè shíjié sǎomù chā liǔ jìniàn de bù zhǐshì shìqù de qīnrén yě yǒu nà jù cháng qīngmíng de zhǔtuō

    The day after Cold Food Day is Qingming. More than two thousand years later, people still tend graves and put up willow branches at this time, remembering not only their departed but also that plea to "stay ever clear and just".

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 扫墓

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).