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Kanji Detail for 棺 - "coffin, casket"

棺

  • Meaning

    棺 means "coffin, casket."

    1. Coffin - A box for burying the dead.

    2. Casket - A receptacle for a corpse.

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    • Verified meaning: coffin, casket
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いくお)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 棺

    Surnames 棺(いくお)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    coffin; casket

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    coffin

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    coffin

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    coffin

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    What is used to contain a corpse. Such as 蓋棺論定 (final judgment after death), meaning a lifetime's good and evil can be determined after death. | To place in a coffin.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kan(カン) カン

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    coffin casket burial cemetery corpse cremation dead death funeral gravestone hearse mortuary mourning shroud undertaker

Sentences including 棺

  • I was surprised to hear that there are people who participate in "inside a coffin experiences" similar to those funerals held for still living people.

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