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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

甘 (Yale gam1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

甘 (POJ kam, Guangdong kam¹, Hagfa Pinyim gam1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Hmong

Hanzi

甘

1. sweet, tasty

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Japanese

Kanji

甘 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

甘 (pinyin gān (gan1), Wade-Giles kan¹)

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

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Middle Chinese

Han character

甘 (*gɑm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甘 (cam)