coffin, casket
棺 centers on the container for a dead body: a coffin or casket.
棺 combines 木 (wood) with 官, which likely contributes the sound and may relate to an official or formal container. The character originally referred to a wooden coffin.
A wooden (木) box with an official (官) seal: a coffin prepared for a formal burial.
For カン, imagine a can-shaped coffin made of wood: can -> カン, and the wooden can holds the body.
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coffin; casket
coffin; casket
sarcophagus; stone coffin
placing a body in a coffin
carrying out a coffin; funeral procession
placing in the coffin
coffin; casket
wooden coffin
to lay in a coffin
a person's worth is assessed only when their coffin is sealed
to cover a coffin; to die
coffin birth; postmortem fetal extrusion
bier
burial urn (often two-storey); funerary urn
person who prepares a body for burial; mortician; undertaker