棺

棺 U+68FA, 棺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68FA ← 棹 [U+68F9] CJK Unified Ideographs 棻 → [U+68FB]

Translingual

Han character

棺 (radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木十口口 (DJRR), four-corner 4397₇, composition ⿰木官)

References

• KangXi: page 535, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14993
• Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1238, character 9
• Unihan data for U+68FA

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		棺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (官) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
官	*koːn
棺	*koːn, *koːns
倌	*koːn, *kroːns
悹	*koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫	*koːn, *koːns
管	*koːnʔ
琯	*koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯	*koːnʔ, *koːns
輨	*koːnʔ
錧	*koːnʔ, *koːns
館	*koːnʔ, *koːns
婠	*koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺	*koːns
逭	*ɡoːns
菅	*kroːn
綰	*qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾	*qoːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guān, guàn (guan¹, guan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ, ㄍㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): koan / koaⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): guan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: guān
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: kuan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guan
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guan
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kwän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: guàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˋ
    • Wade–Giles: kuan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guann
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guàn
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kwän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun¹
    • Yale: gūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koan / koaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kuan / kuann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koafn, kvoaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuan⁴⁴/, /kuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan³³/, /kuã³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan⁴⁴/, /kuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan⁴⁴/, /kuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan⁴⁴/, /kuã⁴⁴/

Note:

• koan - literary;
• koaⁿ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: guan¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuaⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kũã³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kuɑn/, /kuɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	棺	棺
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古丸切	古玩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑn/	/kʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwan/	/kwanH/
Li Rong	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Wang Li	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guān	guàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤa[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːn/, /*koːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	棺
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guān
Middle Chinese	‹ kwan ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁa[n]/
English	inner coffin
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	棺	棺
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4436	4452
Phonetic component	官	官
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	官	貫
Old Chinese	/*koːn/	/*koːns/

Definitions

棺

1. coffin

Synonyms

• 棺材 (guāncai)

Compounds

• 大劈棺
• 封棺
• 懸棺葬／悬棺葬
• 桐棺三寸
• 棺木 (guānmù)
• 棺材 (guāncai)
• 棺材座子
• 棺材本

• 棺材板
• 棺材楦子
• 棺材瓤子
• 棺柩
• 棺槨／棺椁 (guānguǒ)
• 棺罩
• 沒底棺材／没底棺材
• 瓦棺篆鼎

• 石棺 (shíguān)
• 糊假棺
• 老棺材
• 蓋棺事定／盖棺事定
• 蓋棺論定／盖棺论定
• 進棺材／进棺材
• 金棺

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Japanese

Kanji

棺

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. coffin

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: ひつぎ (hitsugi, 棺)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
棺
ひつぎ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

• 柩

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ひつぎ [hìtsúgí] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [çit͡sɨᵝɡʲi]

Noun

棺 (hiragana ひつぎ, rōmaji hitsugi)

1. coffin

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
棺
かん Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​ん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

Noun

棺 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan, historical hiragana くわん)

1. coffin; casket

Derived terms

• 棺 (かん)を蓋 (おお)う (kan o ōu)
• 棺 (かん)を蓋 (おお)いて事定 (ことさだ)まる (kan o ōite koto sadamaru)

References

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Korean

Hanja

棺 (eum 관 (gwan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

棺: Hán Nôm readings: quan

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