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Definition 2025

		to feel; to move; to touch to feel; to move; to touch; to affect	kind act (from above)
simp. and trad. (感恩)		感	恩

感恩

感恩

Sino-Xenic (感恩):

感恩

感恩

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: gǎn'ēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇ ㄣ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaanen
  - IPA ^(key): /ka̠n²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ˀən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gam² jan¹
  - Yale: gám yān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gam² jan¹
  - IPA ^(key): /kɐm³⁵ jɐn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kám-ên
  - Hakka Romanization System: gam` en´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gam³ en¹
  - IPA: /kam³¹ en²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gāng-ŏng
  - IPA ^(key): /kaŋ³³⁻²¹ ^(Ø-)ŋouŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-un
  - Tâi-lô: kám-un
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kafm'wn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ un⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kam⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ un³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ un⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kam⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ un⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-in
  - Tâi-lô: kám-in
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kafm'yn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: koe en (T2)
  - IPA ^(key): /kø³³ əɲ⁴⁴/

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*kˤ[ə]mʔ ʔˤə[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*kɯːmʔ qɯːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	感	恩
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǎn	ēn
Middle Chinese	‹ kom^X ›	‹ ʔon ›
Old Chinese	/*kˤ[ə]mʔ/	/*ʔˤə[n]/
English	move (emotionally) (v.t.)	kindness, favor
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.