棺

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

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːn, *koːns) : semantic 木 + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kwaŋ (“trough; boat; box; tray”) (STEDT's provisional reconstruction).

棺

1. (now Southern Min or in compounds) coffin; inner coffin

   • 鯉也死，有棺而無椁。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鲤也死，有棺而无椁。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Lǐ yě sǐ, yǒu guān ér wú guǒ.

     There was Li; when he died, he had a coffin but no outer shell.

• 壽棺／寿棺
• (Hokkien) 杉板, 薄板仔

棺

1. (obsolete) to lay a body in a coffin

   • 為其所得者，棺而出之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     为其所得者，棺而出之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Wèi qí suǒ dé zhě, guān ér chū zhī.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• “棺”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01952

(Jōyō kanji)

1. coffin

• 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)

From Middle Chinese 棺 (MC kwan).

• (Tokyo) かん (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

棺(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. coffin; casket

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

From Middle Chinese 棺 (MC kwan).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

棺

Wikisource

棺 (eumhun 널 관 (neol gwan))

1. hanja form^? of 관 (“coffin”)

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 棺

棺: Hán Nôm readings: quan

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