甘

甘 U+7518, 甘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7518
← 甗
[U+7517] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 甙 →
[U+7519]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #99, ⽢.

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/甘

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
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Note:
  • kam - literary;
  • kaⁿ - vernacular.
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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