墓（はか）
JLPT N2 · noun
Pitch accent: odaka (tail-high) — high to the end, drops on a following particle (accent on mora 2)
Meaning: grave/tomb
Example sentences
- お盆に家族で墓に参る。 — The family visits the grave together during Obon.
- 先祖の墓を大切に守る。 — They carefully tend to their ancestors' grave.
Idioms & proverbs containing “墓”
- 墓に布団は着せられぬ (はかにふとんはきせられぬ) — it is too late to show filial piety once your parents are dead
- 墓穴を掘る (ぼけつをほる) — to dig one's own grave; to bring calamity upon oneself; to make a rod for one's own back
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