棺 — Chinese character
棺
guān
coffin
- Pinyin
- guān
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 木 官
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wood; meaning component 木; sound component 官
- Japanese
- 棺 as a kanji
Common words with 棺
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棺材 | guān cai | coffin; measure word: 具 (jù), 口 (kǒu) |
| 棺木 | guān mù | coffin |
| 石棺 | shí guān | sarcophagus |
| 棺椁 (棺槨) | guān guǒ | inner and outer coffins; coffin |
| 盖棺定论 (蓋棺定論) | gài guān dìng lùn | don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom) |
| 盖棺论定 (蓋棺論定) | gài guān lùn dìng | don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom) |
| 棺材板 | guān cai bǎn | wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling; coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisti |
| 冰棺 | bīng guān | coffin-shaped freezer used to store a corpse |
| 棺材瓤子 | guān cai ráng zi | geezer with one foot in the grave (used jokingly or as an imprecation) |
| 瓮棺 (甕棺) | wèng guān | funerary urn |
| 瓮棺葬 (甕棺葬) | wèng guān zàng | urn burial |
| 灵棺 (靈棺) | líng guān | a bier; a catafalque (memorial platform) |
English words written with 棺
棺 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 5
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