感

See also: 惑

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 咸 + semantic 心 (“heart”)

Han character

感 (radical 61 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈口心 (IRP), four-corner 5333₀, composition ⿱咸心)

1. feel, perceive
2. emotion

Derived terms

• 憾

References

• KangXi: page 395, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10953
• Dae Jaweon: page 733, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2321, character 2
• Unihan data for U+611F

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		感

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǎn (gan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam²
• Min Nan (POJ): kám

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: kan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaan
    • IPA ^(key): /ka̠n²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam²
    • Yale: gám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam²
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐm³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám
    • Tâi-lô: kám
    • IPA (Taipei): /kam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kam⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (感, reconstructed)
Character (感), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 覃 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 古禫切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʌmX/	/kămX/	/kᴀmX/	/kəmX/	/kəmX/	/kɒmX/	/kɒmX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (感, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
感								gǎn								‹ komX ›								/*kˤ[ə]mʔ/								move (emotionally) (v.t.)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
感					13498					咸					侵					1					感					/*kɯːmʔ/

Compounds

• 感触
• 感戴
• 感到
• 感德
• 感动
• 感恩
• 感恩戴德
• 感恩图报
• 感奋
• 感愤
• 感服
• 感官
• 感光
• 感光片
• 感光纸
• 感荷
• 感化
• 感怀
• 感激
• 感激涕零
• 感觉
• 感觉器官
• 感觉神经
• 感慨 (gǎnkài)
• 感冒
• 感念
• 感泣
• 感情
• 感情用事
• 感染
• 感染力
• 感人
• 感人肺腑
• 感伤
• 感伤主义
• 感生电流
• 感受
• 感受器
• 感叹
• 感叹词
• 感叹号
• 感叹句
• 感同身受
• 感悟
• 感想
• 感谢
• 感兴趣
• 感性
• 感性认识
• 感性知识
• 感言
• 感应
• 感应电流
• 感应线圈
• 感召
• 感知

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

感

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. feeling, sensation, emotion

Readings

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: かん (kan)

Compounds

感温 感化 感懐 感慨 (かんがい, kangai) 感慨無量 感覚 感官 感泣 感興 感吟 感激 感光 感謝

感知 (かんち, kanchi): perception 感受 感受性 感傷 感賞 感情 感触 感心 感性 感染 感想 感嘆, 感歎 感嘆符

感知 感電 感度 感動 感動詞 感得 感応 感服 感奮 感冒 感銘 感涙

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

• 感氣 (감기, gamgi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

感 (cảm, cám)

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