柩
jiù

coffin which contains corpse

A wooden 木 coffin 匛; 匛 also provides the pronunciation

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
匛
匛 SoundMeaning component
jiù

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgjuwH[ɡ]ʷə-scoffin (with corpse)
Zhengzhangɡʷlɯs

說文解字

棺也。从匚从木，久聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)