chèn

coffin

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰrins

說文解字

棺也。从木親聲。《春秋傳》曰:“士輿櫬。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

chèn, qìn, guàn coffin Simplified

Components

Meaning component
tree

wood

Sound component
qīn, qin relatives

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode