棺 guān
guān
noun
coffin
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '棺')
Contained in
- 盖棺定论(蓋棺定論) don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin
- 石棺 sarcophagus
- 迁棺(遷棺) to move a coffin
- 棺櫬 a wooden coffin
- 不见棺材不落泪(不見棺材不落淚) not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin; refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
- 瓮棺(甕棺) funerary urn
- 棺材瓤子 geezer with one foot in the grave (used jokingly or as an imprecation)
- 瓮棺葬(甕棺葬) urn burial
- 棺材 coffin
- 进棺材(進棺材) to go into a coffin; to die
- 灵棺(靈棺) a bier; a catafalque (memorial platform); a coffin
- 棺椁(棺槨) inner and outer coffins; coffin
- 罩棺 a cloth used to cover coffin
- 棺木 coffin
- 盖棺论定(蓋棺論定) don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin
- 棺柩 a coffin
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷三十九 劉趙淳于江劉周趙列傳 Volume 39: Biographies of Liu, Zhao, Chunyu, Jiang, Liu, Zhou, Zhao Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 22
- 卷三百〇二 列傳第一百九十 列女二 Volume 302 Biographies 190: Exemplary Women 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 14
- 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 14
- 卷六十 Scroll 60 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
- 卷三百〇三 列傳第一百九十一 列女三 Volume 303 Biographies 191: Exemplary Women 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 11
- 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 11
- 卷八十八 列傳第五十八 孝友 Volume 88 Biographies 58: Filial Piety Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 9
- 卷二百九十七 列傳第一百八十五 孝義二 Volume 297 Biographies 185: Filial Acts 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 8
- 卷二百 列傳第八十七: 列女一 Volume 200 Biographies 87: Exemplary Women 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 7
- 卷二十 志第十 禮樂十 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites and Music 10 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 7
Collocations
- 棺三 (棺三) 桐棺三寸 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 10
- 棺敛 (棺斂) 何以不棺斂於宮中 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 8
- 桐棺 (桐棺) 桐棺三寸 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 7
- 饰棺 (飾棺) 飾棺寘諸堂阜 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 7
- 棺帜 (棺幟) 後世聖人易之以棺幟 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十九 劉趙淳于江劉周趙列傳 Volume 39: Biographies of Liu, Zhao, Chunyu, Jiang, Liu, Zhou, Zhao — count: 7
- 瓦棺 (瓦棺) 有虞氏瓦棺 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 5
- 棺用 (棺用) 君里棺用朱綠 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 5
- 棺钱 (棺錢) 賜死者棺錢 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷十一 哀帝紀 Volume 11: Annals of Emperor Ai — count: 4
- 棺周 (棺周) 棺周於衣 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 4
- 大棺 (大棺) 君大棺八寸 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 4