Chinese symbol for “coffin”
棺材
guān cai
coffin; measure word: 具 (jù), 口 (kǒu)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for coffin is 棺材 (guān cai), defined as: coffin; measure word: 具 (jù), 口 (kǒu).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “coffin”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棺木 | guān mù | coffin |
| 棺 | guān | coffin |
| 灵 (靈) | líng | quick; alert |
| 材 | cái | material; timber |
| 寿材 (壽材) | shòu cái | coffin |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 棺材.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 材料 | cái liào | (raw) material; data |
| 题材 (題材) | tí cái | subject matter |
| 教材 | jiào cái | teaching material; measure word: 本 (běn) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “coffin”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.