勘

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 力 (“strong”) + phonetic 甚 – to look at carefully, strongly.

Han character

勘 (radical 19 力+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿女大尸 (TVKS), four-corner 4472₇)

1. investigate
2. compare
3. collate

References

• KangXi: page 148, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2393
• Dae Jaweon: page 334, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 373, character 18
• Unihan data for U+52D8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

勘 (Yale ham3)

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Japanese

Kanji

勘 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: かんがえる (kangaeru)

Compounds

• 勘定 (かんじょう, kanjō, “bill, check”)

Noun

勘 (hiragana かん, romaji kan)

1. intuition

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Korean

Hanja

勘 (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune-Reischauer kam)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

勘 (pinyin kān (kan1), Wade-Giles k'an¹)