What 埋 means
埋 puts something in earth or out of sight.
Inscriptions on bones used for divination and on bronze record its history. Older 薶 links it to offerings buried in rites for land, mountains, and forests. Later uses include hiding, filling, or being covered. As of 2026, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts may alter its shape without changing the character.
Usually literal; compounds set its Mandarin reading.
In Mandarin, 埋怨 means “complain or blame”; the burying reading changes it.
Who writes 埋
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 埋 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 埋
- Search it as
- bury · hide · cover · fill · mái · mán · mai · umeru
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\57CBMandarin Pinyin for 埋
Use mái for bury/hide words; 埋怨 is mán yuàn, so enter the whole word.
Japanese reading of 埋
On a Japanese IME, mai enters マイ; umeru, umaru, and umoreru enter うめる, うまる, and うもれる.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
埋
HTML hex
埋
CSS content
content: "\57CB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%9F%8B
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.