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Kotomora

櫬

coffin, tung tree

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Readings

On'yomi

  • シン
  • カン

Kun'yomi

  • ひつぎ

Meaning

櫬 centers on a wooden container for the dead: a coffin. The tung tree meaning is a separate botanical application, likely from the same character used for the tree's wood.

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Etymology

櫬 combines 木 (tree, wood) with 親, which likely contributes the sound. The character originally referred to a type of wood (tung tree) and later came to mean a wooden coffin.

Meaning mnemonic

The left side is 木 (tree/wood), and the right side is 親 (parent, intimate). Picture a wooden coffin made from a tung tree, intimately holding a loved one.

Reading mnemonic

For シン, imagine a shin (shinbone) resting inside the wooden coffin: shin -> シン, and the coffin holds the remains.