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棺

棺

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

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

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
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/

Noun

棺

  1. coffin

Synonyms

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

棺

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Noun

棺 ‎(hiragana ひつぎ, romaji hitsugi)

  1. coffin

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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