What 椁 means
It is the wooden enclosure around an inner coffin. Built in the burial pit, it could also hold grave goods. Archaeological histories trace it through ancient Chinese tomb traditions: Yangshao single-coffin graves, Dawenkou and Liangzhu timber frames, and developed Longshan tombs across the fifth to third millennia BCE.
Later, coffin counts and compartments could signal rank. Eastern Zhou tombs show regional and period variation, not one fixed rule.
椁 or 槨?
They are alternate written forms of the same term. 槨 is the traditional form; 椁 is its simplified form in modern Chinese.
Specialist Chinese burial vocabulary for an outer-coffin structure.
棺 is the inner coffin; 椁 is its outer enclosure.
Who writes 椁
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Questions people ask
1Why does 椁 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 椁
- Also called
- 槨
- Search it as
- guo · guo3 · 棺椁 · 木椁 · 外椁 · outer coffin
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
椁\6901Codes and encoding1 code points
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