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窀 is a classical character denoting an underground tomb and the act of interring the dead deep in the earth. It is composed of the radical 穴 ('cave') at the top, indicating a cave, pit, or grave, and the phonetic component 屯 underneath, giving the pronunciation zhūn. The character is almost never used alone; it appears in the compound 窀穸 (zhūnxī), a solemn literary term for a tomb or crypt in ancient funerary texts. Its usage is restricted to this archaic mortuary vocabulary.
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