bury, be filled up, embedded
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
その夜、お茶屋さんはタナカが思っていたよりずっと多くの人で埋まっていました。
Sono yoru, ochayasan wa Tanaka ga omotte ita yori zutto ooku no hito de umatte imashita.
That night, the tea house was packed — way more people than Tanaka expected.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0