Usage of the character 棺
guān
棺
[棺]
- coffin
língguān
灵棺
[靈棺]
- a bier
- a catafalque (memorial platform)
- a coffin
wèngguān
瓮棺
[甕棺]
- funerary urn
bīngguān
冰棺
[冰棺]
- coffin-shaped freezer used to store a corpse
guānguǒ
棺椁
[棺槨]
- inner and outer coffins
- coffin
shíguān
石棺
[石棺]
- sarcophagus
guāncai
棺材
[棺材]
- coffin
- CL:具 (jù),口 (kǒu)
guānmù
棺木
[棺木]
- coffin
guāncaibǎn
棺材板
[棺材板]
- wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling
- coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
wèngguānzàng
瓮棺葬
[甕棺葬]
- urn burial
gàiguānlùndìng
盖棺论定
[蓋棺論定]
- don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
guāncairángzi
棺材瓤子
[棺材瓤子]
- geezer with one foot in the grave (used jokingly or as an imprecation)
gàiguāndìnglùn
盖棺定论
[蓋棺定論]
- don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
bùjiànguāncaibùluòlèi
不见棺材不落泪
[不見棺材不落淚]
- lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom)
- fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality