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茔 is a noun meaning grave, tomb, or burial ground. The traditional 塋 pairs the earth radical 土 with an upper phonetic made of two fire radicals over a roof-like component. In the simplified 茔, that top is replaced by 艹 (grass) and 冖 (cover), so the character depicts grass 艹 covering a casket 冖 buried in the earth 土. Its meaning is strictly literal, referring only to physical burial sites.
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