What about a single handful of earth on the late emperor's grave?
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抔 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It lives on in the literary phrase 一抔土 (a single handful of earth, i.e. a humble grave), made famous by Luo Binwang's Tang manifesto. It joins the hand radical 扌 with the phonetic 不.
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Classical and literary only; today it appears in old quotations and as a measure word for earth in elevated writing, not in speech.
