What 槨 means
It is the casing around an inner coffin. 棺 is the inner coffin; 槨 is the outer one. Early dictionary graphs already record this funerary sense.
Wooden outer-coffin burials appear in late Neolithic Dawenkou culture. In Shang and Zhou burials, its size followed rank and its surrounding space held grave goods.
Why did anyone build a 槨?
It enclosed the coffin and organized burial space. Elite examples could be decorated and built as part of a furnished tomb, not treated as an ordinary casket.
Japanese archaeology also uses 槨 for stone, clay, or gravel surrounds. 椁 is the simplified/variant form of 槨, while 棺槨 names the inner-and-outer coffin pair.
Funerary, classical, and archaeological; specialized outside those contexts.
Do not read 槨 as the inner coffin itself.
Who writes 槨
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Questions people ask
1Why does 槨 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 槨
- Search it as
- outer coffin · 椁 · 棺槨 · 棺椁 · guo · guǒ · muguo
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
槨\69E8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.