がん

See also: かん and ガン

Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of がん – see the following entries.

【丸】2 [affix] round; circular [noun] a meatball, fishball [noun] a pill [proper noun] a surname

【岩】2 [affix] rock

【顔】2 [affix] look; face; expression [affix] color

【岸】3 [affix] bank; coast; shore

【願】4 [affix] desire; wish [affix] pray [noun] a prayer

【雁】J [noun] wild goose Alternative spellings 鴈, ガン

【巌】J [affix] (only found in compounds) a rock, crag, or boulder

【癌】H [noun] (medicine, oncology, pathology) cancer [noun] (figurative) cancer Alternative spelling ガン

(This term, がん, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as がん, see Category:Japanese kanji read as がん.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 元, 眼, 含, 玩, 頑, 翫, 贋.)

Etymology 2

Adverb

がん • (gan) 

1. (onomatopoeia): evoking the sound made by a bell, or by striking an object: gong, clang, wham, conk, bang

   がんと壁(かべ)にぶつかった。

   Gan to kabe ni butsukatta.

   He hit the wall with a wham.

Yoron

Noun

がん (gan) 

1. 蟹: crab