jiù
noun #62,465

Meanings

  1. 1 a coffin containing a corpse; bier

Examples

Érzi men hùsòng língjiù huí xiāng ānzàng.
His sons escorted the coffin back to their hometown for burial.
Língjiù tíng zài cítáng, děnghòu chūbìn.
The coffin was placed in the ancestral hall awaiting the funeral.

Tips

usage
An empty coffin is ; once it holds a body it becomes . In modern Chinese it appears mainly in 灵柩 ('coffin with the deceased').

Components

radical
wood
Left side is the wood radical , since a coffin is a wooden box — the radical carries the core 'made of wood' sense.
phonetic
jiù
enclosed container element
The right portion combines an enclosing 'box' frame with ('long, lasting') inside — it both supplies the sound jiù and hints at a long-sealed container.

Stroke Order

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