U+68FA "棺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
棺
U+68FA "棺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "coffin" or "casket." It is composed of the radical "木" meaning "wood" or "tree," combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its material and funerary context. This ideograph is used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, often appearing in terms related to death, burial, and mourning rituals. In Japanese, for example, it is read as "kan" and found in words like "棺桶" (kan'oke meaning coffin). The character carries cultural significance tied to traditional practices and beliefs about the afterlife and ancestor veneration.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+68FA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 棺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 棺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA3 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x68FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000068FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u68fa |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B4C3 |
| kCCCII | 21446C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5F68 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5F68 |
| kCangjie | DJRR |
| kCantonese | gun1 |
| kCihaiT | 704.504 |
| kCowles | 1817 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0922.230 |
| kDefinition | coffin |
| kEACC | 21446C |
| kFanqie | 古丸 古玩 |
| kFenn | 751D |
| kFennIndex | 267.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4397.7 |
| kGB0 | 2555 |
| kGB1 | 2555 |
| kGSR | 0157e |
| kHangul | 관:0N |
| kHanYu | 21238.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | guān(9) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21238.090:guān,guàn |
| kHKGlyph | 1935 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0922.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21238.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0535.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3957 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B4C3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-343D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3F7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E32 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5F68 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5A35 |
| kJapanese | カン ひつぎ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2577 |
| kJapaneseKun | HITSUGI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 2029 |
| kKangXi | 0535.040 |
| kKarlgren | 447 |
| kKorean | KWAN |
| kLau | 1071 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2778 |
| kMandarin | guān |
| kMatthews | 3554 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1274 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014093 |
| kMorohashi | 14993 |
| kNelson | 2298 |
| kPhonetic | 760 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1529+75.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.8 |
| kSBGY | 125.14 403.22 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 322.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guān粵gun1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2778 |
| kTang | guɑn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 121.080:guān |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | quan |
| kXerox | 260:312 |
| kXHC1983 | 0406.030:guān |