殓 — Chinese character
殓
liàn
to dress a corpse for burial
- Pinyin
- liàn
- Radical
- 78 ⽍ (Death)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 歹 佥
- Formation
- pictophonetic — corpse; meaning component 歹; sound component 佥
- Traditional
- 殮
Common words with 殓
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 入殓 (入殮) | rù liàn | to put dead body in coffin |
| 殡殓 (殯殮) | bìn liàn | to bury sb |
| 装殓 (裝殮) | zhuāng liàn | to prepare the dead body and place it in a coffin |
| 殓尸房 (殮屍房) | liàn shī fáng | morgue |
| 殓房 (殮房) | liàn fáng | morgue |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.