古墓葬群

• 十(ten)ASSOCIATIVE
• 口(mouth; speech)RADICAL

Ten mouths passing word down through generations—that is something ancient.

• 土(earth; soil; land)RADICAL
• 莫(sunset; dusk; darkness)PHONO-SEMANTIC

A tomb is where the body is buried deep in the earth when the curtain of night falls.

• 艹(grass; plant)RADICAL
• 死(die; dead)ASSOCIATIVE
• 廾(two hands raised up; reverent offering)ASSOCIATIVE

Burial uses two hands to place a dead person in the midst of grass and trees.

• 君(king; leader)PHONETIC
• 羊(goat; sheep)RADICAL

A flock of sheep needs a leader to guide them, just as a king leads his people.