Word Meaning 墓地

ぼち bochi

墓地 is read as ぼち (bochi) and means cemetery.

Meaning

English

  1. cemetery
  2. graveyard

Reading

Kana

ぼち

Romaji

bochi

Writing Variants

  • 墓地 はかち hakachi

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 19 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 5 Kanken 6級 Related Words ,死ぬ,亡くなる,死亡,逝去,故人,遺体,亡骸 Rank 410 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

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共同墓地

きょうどうぼち

public cemetery

集団墓地

しゅうだんぼち

mass grave

公園墓地

こうえんぼち

garden cemetery

無縁墓地

むえんぼち

cemetery for those who left no relatives behind

墓参り

はかまいり

visit to a grave

墓穴

ぼけつ

grave (pit)

墓所

ぼしょ

graveyard

はか

grave

墓石

ぼせき

tombstone

墓標

ぼひょう

writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.)

墓前

ぼぜん

in front of a grave

墓場

はかば

graveyard

Example Sentences

5

ふるいぼちにはだれもいませんでした。

There was no one in the old graveyard.

Let's go through the graveyard. It's shorter that way.

J.F. Kennedy was buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Tom and Mary went to the cemetery to visit their mothers' graves.

Here at the Jokanji, also known as the "Nagekomi-dera", in the cemetery there is a memorial to thousands of prostitutes, the so-called "women of pleasure", who have found their final resting place here. It's filled with an indescribable melancholy, and, for some reason, it makes me want to come back here again and again.