biǎn

to put a coffin in a grave

Components

Meaning component
xué, jué cave

hole

Unknown component
lack

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpjemHpr[o]m-sput coffin in grave
Zhengzhangproms

說文解字

葬下棺也。从穴乏聲。《周禮》曰:“及窆執斧。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica