棺 — kanji meaning “coffin”
棺
coffin, casket
- Meanings
- coffin, casket
- On'yomi
- カン (kan)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #2161 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 75
- Chinese reading
- guān — Chinese character page
Words with 棺
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 石棺 | せっかん sekkan | sarcophagus; stone coffin |
| 棺桶 | かんおけ kan'oke | coffin; casket |
| 納棺 | のうかん noukan | placing a body in a coffin |
| 出棺 | しゅっかん shukkan | carrying out a coffin; funeral procession |
| 入棺 | にゅうかん nyuukan | placing in the coffin |
| 寝棺 | ねかん nekan | coffin; casket |
| 棺を覆う | かんをおおう kan'ooou | to cover a coffin; to die |
| 甕棺 | かめかん kamekan | burial urn (often two-storey); funerary urn |
| 木棺 | もっかん mokkan | wooden coffin |
| 棺内分娩 | かんないぶんべん kannaibunben | coffin birth; postmortem fetal extrusion |
| 棺架 | かんか kanka | bier |
| 納棺師 | のうかんし noukanshi | person who prepares a body for burial; mortician; undertaker |
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