棺 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

coffin, casket

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カンJHS
Other languages
  • 拼音guan1
  • 한글gwan
  • Hán-ViệtQuan
  • Hán-ViệtQuán

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
木(き)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+68FA

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰木官

Words using this kanji

  • かん(カン・ひつぎ)死体を葬儀にあたって納める容れ物。。coffin, casket
  • 棺桶かんおけ棺に利用するためのおけ。棺。coffin, casket
  • 棺架かんかbier
  • 棺を覆うかんをおおうto cover a coffin, to die
  • 棺内分娩かんないぶんべんcoffin birth, postmortem fetal extrusion
  • 棺に納めるかんにおさめるto lay in a coffin
  • 棺を蓋いて事定まるかんをおおいてことさだまる人の評価は死ぬまで定まらないことのたとえ。a person's worth is assessed only when their coffin is sealed

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(16 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-8
Four Corner
4397.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4a8.25
Heisig
1364
Nelson
2298