甘

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. sweetness
2. sweet, tasty
3. accepting of something (e.g. an outcome, a situation)
4. a surname

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

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		甘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gān (gan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kam
• Min Nan (POJ): kam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gān
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: kan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gan
    • IPA ^(key): /ka̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹
    • Yale: gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kam
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /kam⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam
    • Tâi-lô: kam
    • IPA (Taipei): /kam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kam³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (甘, reconstructed)
Character (甘), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 談 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古三切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɑm/	/kɑm/	/kɑm/	/kɑm/	/kam/	/kɑm/	/kɑm/

Old Chinese pronunciation (甘, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
甘								gān								‹ kam ›								/*[k]ˤ[a]m/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
甘					3652					甘					談					1					甘					/*kaːm/

Adjective

甘

1. sweet

   甘甜 sweet, 甘蔗 sugar cane

Adverb

甘

1. willingly

   甘心 to be willing to, 甘愿 willingly

Proper noun

甘

1. A surname​.
2. abbreviation for Gansu Province 甘肃省 (甘肅省)

Compounds

• 甘拜下风
• 甘草
• 甘脆, 干毳
• 甘服
• 甘汞
• 甘瓜苦蒂
• 甘蕉
• 甘居
• 甘苦
• 甘蓝
• 甘冽
• 甘霖
• 甘露
• 甘美
• 甘泉
• 甘受
• 甘薯
• 甘甜
• 甘心
• 甘休
• 甘言
• 甘油
• 甘于
• 甘雨
• 甘愿
• 甘蔗
• 甘之如饴

References

• "甘" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-03-16.
• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

甘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: あまい (甘い, amai), うまい (甘い, umai), あまんじる (甘んじる , amanjiru)

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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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