棺

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

• 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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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		棺

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guān, guàn (guan¹, guan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ, ㄍㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guān
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: kuan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guan
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯a̠n⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: kuan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guann
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯a̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun¹
    • Yale: gūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kuːn⁵⁵/

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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	/*kʷˤa[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/

NounEdit

棺

1. coffin

SynonymsEdit

• 棺材 (guāncai)

Derived termsEdit

• 棺材 (guāncai)
• 棺槨／棺椁 (guānguǒ)
• 棺木 (guānmù)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

棺

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: ひつぎ (hitsugi)

NounEdit

棺 ‎(hiragana ひつぎ, romaji hitsugi)

1. coffin

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

棺 • ‎(gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

• Hán Việt: quan

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