葬る
ほうむる · houmuru · JLPT N1 · verb-godan
to bury
⚰️ 葬 = grass over the dead; る = verb ending: to bury, to entomb
Its kanji 葬 combines 艹 (grass) and 死 (death): burying the dead under the grass. Read ほうむる, the verb form is houmuru, and the 葬 kanji stays fixed in writing.
葬 — grass 艹 + 死 (death) + 廾 (two hands)
葬 is an associative compound depicting a corpse (死) placed between grass (艹) above and below, with hands (廾) laying it to rest. It pictures an ancient burial practice of covering the dead with vegetation. The original sense 'to bury' has remained stable for millennia.