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"a coffin" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
灵棺 靈棺 líng guān a bier / a catafalque (memorial platform) / a coffin
Chinese Pinyin Translation
棺材 guān cai coffin / CL:具[ju4],口[kou3] syn
守灵 守靈 shǒu líng to keep watch beside a coffin
棺木 guān mù coffin syn
灵柩 靈柩 líng jiù coffin containing a corpse syn
抬杠 抬槓 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 syn
墓道 mù dào path leading to a grave / tomb passage / aisle leading to the coffin chamber of an ancient tomb syn
细腰 細腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
棺椁 棺槨 guān guǒ inner and outer coffins / coffin syn
行将就木 行將就木 xíng jiāng jiù mù to approach one's coffin (idiom) / with one foot in the grave syn
灵 靈 líng quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin syn
材 cái material / timber / ability / aptitude / a capable individual / coffin (old) syn
杠 槓 gàng coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole / bar / rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard / criterion / hyphen / dash syn
棺 guān coffin syn
殓 殮 liàn to prepare a dead body for coffin syn
入殓 入殮 rù liàn to put dead body in coffin syn
桧 檜 guì Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis) / (old) coffin lid decoration / Taiwan pr. [kuai4] syn
盖棺论定 蓋棺論定 gài guān lùn dìng don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
椁 槨 guǒ outer coffin
守丧 守喪 shǒu sāng to keep watch beside a coffin / to observe a period of mourning
匾 楄 pián basket-couch in coffin syn
厝 cuò to lay in place / to put / to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial syn
榇 櫬 chèn Sterculia plantanifolia / coffin syn
窆 biǎn to put a coffin in the grave
不见棺材不落泪 不見棺材不落淚 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
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)
寿材 壽材 shòu cái coffin syn
槥 huì coffin
哭灵 哭靈 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
杠夫 槓夫 gàng fū pole carrier / coffin-bearer
杠头 槓頭 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 蓋棺 gài guān coffin lid / fig. posthumous reputation
盖棺定论 蓋棺定論 gài guān dìng lùn don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
冰棺 bīng guān coffin-shaped freezer used to store a corpse
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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