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坟墓

fén mù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 墳墓

坟墓 (fén mù) means "grave; tomb". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 坟墓 means

1. grave
2. tomb

The characters in 坟墓

• 坟féngrave; tomb; embankment
• 墓mùgrave; tomb; mausoleum

Example sentences

• 这是谁的坟墓？
  Whose tomb is this?
• 摇篮里学的带到坟墓。
  What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.
• 他们被埋在一座大坟墓里
  Tāmen bèi mái zài yī zuò dà fénmù lǐ
  They were buried in a mass grave.
• 让苔藓盖上我的坟墓吧。
  Ràng táixiǎn gàishang wǒ de fénmù ba.
  Let moss cover my grave.
• 他们被埋在一座大坟墓里。
  They were buried in a mass grave.
• 玛丽变得如此虚弱和憔悴，似乎她的一只脚已经踏进了坟墓
  Mǎlì biànde rúcǐ xūruò hé qiáocuì, sìhū tā de yī zhī jiǎo yǐjīng tàjìn le fénmù
  Mary had become so frail and gaunt that it seemed she already had one foot in the grave.

Words containing 坟墓

• 自掘坟墓zì jué fén mùto dig one's own grave
• 集体坟墓jí tǐ fén mùmass grave

Where 坟墓 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fēn–fěn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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