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甘

甘

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

甘 (radical 99 甘+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 廿一 (TM), four-corner 44770)

  1. Kangxi radical #99, ⽢ ‎(“sweet”).

References

  • KangXi: page 753, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21643
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1161, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2413, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7518

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 甘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甘
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (甘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
紺 *kɯːms
姏 *mɡaːm
嵌 *sɡaːmʔ, *kʰraːm
甘 *kaːm
柑 *kaːm
苷 *kaːm
泔 *kaːm
坩 *kaːm, *kʰaːm
蚶 *ɢaːm, *ɢaːm
酣 *ɢaːm
甝 *ɢaːm
魽 *ɢaːm
邯 *ɡaːm, *ɡaːm
鉗 *ɡram
箝 *ɡram
黚 *ɡram, *ɡrɯm
拑 *ɡram

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 甘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 談 (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古三切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kam/
Li
Rong		 /kɑm/
Wang
Li		 /kɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 甘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kam ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤ[a]m/
English sweet

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 甘
Reading # 1/1
No. 3652
Phonetic
component		 甘
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 甘
Old
Chinese		 /*kaːm/

Definitions

甘

  1. sweet
    甘甜  ―  gāntián  ―  sweet
    甘蔗  ―  gānzhè  ―  sugar cane
  2. willingly
    甘心  ―  gānxīn  ―  to be willing to
    甘願 / 甘愿  ―  gānyuàn  ―  willingly
  3. A surname​.
  4. Short for 甘肅／甘肃 (Gānsù, “Gansu”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

甘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sweet

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

甘 • ‎(gam) (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune-Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甘 (cam)

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