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Kanji Detail for 斂 - "collect, store, coffin"
斂
- Meaning
斂 means "collect, store, coffin."
Collect - To gather; to levy.
Store - To take in; to tighten.
Coffin - To place a body in a coffin.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
tighten; stiffen
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
draw back, fold back; collect
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(literary) to hold back; (literary) to restrain; to control (oneself); to collect; to gather; Taiwan pr. [lian4]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to collect, to extort
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To gather. Taking from many, gathering scattered into whole is 斂. Such as 聚斂, 斂財. | To store away. Such as 斂手, 斂迹. Also, 殯殮 in classics is also written as 斂. | What is condensed without dispersing is 斂. Such as medicine's 濇斂, 酸斂. | To contract. Gradually decreasing is 斂. Mathematics has 斂級數, meaning progressively decreasing.
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