棺 材 guān cai coffin / CL:具[ju4],口[kou3] 棺 木 guān mù coffin 棺 椁 guān guǒ inner and outer coffins / coffin 灵 quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin 材 material / timber / ability / aptitude / a capable individual / coffin (old) 棺 coffin 榇 Sterculia plantanifolia / coffin 寿 材 shòu cái coffin 槥 coffin 灵 棺 líng guān a bier / a catafalque (memorial platform) / a coffin 细 腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin 抬 杠 tái gàng to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles 灵 柩 líng jiù coffin containing a corpse 墓 道 mù dào path leading to a grave / tomb passage / aisle leading to the coffin chamber of an ancient tomb 守 灵 shǒu líng to keep watch beside a coffin 行 将 就 木 xíng jiāng jiù mù to approach one's coffin (idiom) / with one foot in the grave 入 殓 rù liàn to put dead body in coffin 盖 棺 论 定 gài guān lùn dìng don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom) 守 丧 shǒu sāng to keep watch beside a coffin / to observe a period of mourning 匾 basket-couch in coffin 桧 Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis) / (old) coffin lid decoration / Taiwan pr. [kuai4] 殓 to prepare a dead body for coffin 厝 to lay in place / to put / to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial 椁 outer coffin 窆 to put a coffin in the grave 不 见 棺 材 不 落 泪 bù jiàn guān cai bù luò lèi lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom) / fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality 哭 灵 kū líng to weep before a coffin or a memorial to the dead 就 木 jiù mù to be placed in a coffin / (fig.) to die 杠 头 gàng tóu (old) chief coffin bearer / (fig.) argumentative person / a kind of bread made with a dough flattened using a rolling pin 槓子|杠子[gang4 zi5] 盖 棺 gài guān coffin lid / fig. posthumous reputation 盖 棺 定 论 gài guān dìng lùn don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom) 棺 材 板 guān cai bǎn wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself) / (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim / unsmiling / coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
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