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棺 = 官 + 木

棺 is a Japanese kanji written with 12 strokes, listed here under the keyword “coffin”. It is built from 官 (bureaucrat) and 木 (tree). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1364.

Keyword
coffin
RTK frame
1364
Strokes
12
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
カン
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
гроб
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
棺 coffin

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 官 bureaucrat
  2. 木 tree

How to find 棺 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “bureaucrat” + “tree”. 棺 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 棺 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.