First opened Saturday, April 27, 2013
墓地
ぼち
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
cemetery, graveyard
Bochi is from the Middle Chinese compound 墓地, literally “grave, tomb + ground, region”, in the kan'on reading.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
Not settled
Wiktionary itself hedges on part of this word's origin — those lines are marked below.
- Hedged“From Middle Chinese compound 墓地 (muᴴ dijᴴ, literally “grave, tomb + ground, region”). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. Compare modern Mandarin reading mùdì, Min Nan bōng-tē.”
Source: Wiktionary: 墓地 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 墓地 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not ぼち. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
はかち
- “Compound of 墓 (haka, “grave”, from Old Japanese) + 地 (chi, “ground, region”, from Middle Chinese).”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.