Memory phrase for the character: 棺

棺

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Meaning

coffin

Pronunciation

KAN
hitsugi

Explanation

 Left: tree 木, right: government 官 (Under a roof 宀 with straightly connected rooms 呂 is the government.) - but here seen as two stapled coffins in cross-sectional view.)

Mnemonic
 
Made of a tree and piled under a roof: Coffins! - (And at the altar 示/礻are the coffins 且 of our ancestors 祖)

Radicals

木 tree
官 government




 Vocabulary

棺 かん  coffin, casket

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