咁

咁 U+5481, 咁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5481 ← 咀 [U+5480] CJK Unified Ideographs 咂 → [U+5482]

Translingual

Han character

咁 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口廿一 (RTM), four-corner 6407₀, composition ⿰口甘)

References

• KangXi: page 184, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3477
• Dae Jaweon: page 403, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 598, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5481

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		咁

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 甘 (OC *kaːm).

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Some postulate that it is the fusion of 個物 (MC kɑ^H mɨut̚).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam³
    • Yale: gam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm³³/

Definitions

咁

1. (Cantonese) so, to such an extent

   做咩你咁冇腦㗎？ [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
   做咩你咁冇脑㗎？ [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]

   zou⁶ me¹ nei⁵ gam³ mou⁵ nou⁵ gaa³? [Jyutping]

   Why are you so stupid?

   • 1978, 許冠傑, 黎彼得 (lyrics), “佛跳牆”, in 佛跳牆, performed by 許冠傑:

     佛跳牆，炆得咁鬼香，見到佛跳牆，鬼都要裝香 [Cantonese, trad.]
     佛跳墙，炆得咁鬼香，见到佛跳墙，鬼都要装香 [Cantonese, simp.]

     fat⁶ tiu³ coeng⁴, man¹ dak¹ gam³ gwai² hoeng¹, gin³ dou^3-2 fat⁶ tiu³ coeng⁴, gwai² dou¹ jiu³ zong¹ hoeng¹ [Jyutping]

     Fotiaoqiang, stewed so darn aromatically; at the sight of fotiaoqiang, even the spirits want to burn incense

   • 2004, 劉德華 (lyrics), “魔鬼在戀愛”, in Coffee or Tea, performed by 劉德華:

     又有乜咁出奇 [Literary Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

     jau⁶ jau⁵ mat¹ gam³ ceot¹ kei⁴ [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 這麼 (“so; such (modifies adj.)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		如此
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		如此
Mandarin	Beijing	這麼
	Taiwan	這麼
	Harbin	這麼
	Yantai (Muping)	這麼
	Jinan	這麼
	Luoyang	陣
	Wanrong	這麼
	Xi'an	這們, 陣
	Yinchuan	這麼
	Lanzhou	這們
	Xining	這們
	Ürümqi	這麼
	Wuhan	這麼, 這樣, 這個樣子
	Chengdu	這們, 這麼, 嘞們
	Guiyang	仲個
	Guilin	這樣
	Liuzhou	陣, 哏
	Xuzhou	恁麼
	Yangzhou	這們
	Nanjing	這麼, 這樣子
	Nantong	格麼
	Malaysia	這樣
	Singapore	這樣, 這麼
Cantonese	Guangzhou	咁
	Hong Kong	咁
	Foshan	咁
	Taishan	該
	Dongguan	呢咁, 咁
	Yunfu	咁
	Yangjiang	果樣, 拱
	Xinyi	咁
	Nanning	咁
	Wuzhou	咁
	Yulin	咁
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	果
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	咁
	Penang (Guangfu)	咁
	Singapore (Guangfu)	咁
Gan	Nanchang	箇
	Lichuan	該樣
	Pingxiang	箇, 箇史
Hakka	Meixian	恁
	Xingning	恁, 咁
	Huidong (Daling)	恁, 咁
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	咁
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	咁
	Changting	仰
	Wuping	恁
	Wuping (Pingyu)	恁
	Liancheng	樣
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	恁
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	恁
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	恁
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	恁
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	恁
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	恁
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	咁
	Senai (Huiyang)	恁
	Kuching (Hepo)	恁
Huizhou	Jixi	爾的
Jin	Taiyuan	這來
	Xinzhou	這啦, 這麼, 這來
Min Bei	Jian'ou	⿰口樣
Min Dong	Fuzhou	只滿, 只
	Fuqing	者滿
	Singapore (Fuqing)	者滿
Min Nan	Xiamen	遮, 遮爾, 遮爾仔
	Quanzhou	拙, 拙幹
	Zhangzhou	遮爾, 遮爾仔
	Taipei	遮 GT, 遮爾 GT, 遮爾仔 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	按呢
	Chaozhou	照, 照生
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	照
	Singapore (Teochew)	只生
	Leizhou	偌
	Haikou	只, 者
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	更
Wu	Shanghai	搿能, 搿能介, 搿個能, 介, 實能 dated, 實個能 dated
	Shanghai (Chongming)	能
	Suzhou	該實梗, 該尚, 哀實梗, 哀尚, 實梗, 尚
	Danyang	根
	Hangzhou	價套, 價, 實價套, 實價
	Ningbo	介
	Wenzhou	該恁, 恁
	Jinhua	帳, 格生, 格亨, 喪
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	絞麼
Xiang	Changsha	咯樣
	Quanzhou	這麼
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

See also

• 這樣／这样 (zhèyàng), 這麼／这么 (zhème), 那麼／那么 (nàme)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam²
    • Yale: gám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm³⁵/

Definitions

咁 (Cantonese)

1. Alternative form of 噉.
2. Alternative form of 減／减.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (POJ): kám

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám
    • Tâi-lô: kám
    • Phofsit Daibuun: karm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kam⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kam⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kam⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kam⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kam⁴¹/

Definitions

咁

1. Alternative form of 敢 (“question particle”).

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hán (han²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hán
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hán
    • Wade–Giles: han²
    • Yale: hán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: harn
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän³⁵/

Definitions

咁

1. milk

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 咁 – see 銜 (“bit; to hold in the mouth; etc.”). (This character, 咁, is a variant form of 銜.)

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Japanese

Kanji

咁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. so

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan); がん (gan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咁: Hán Việt readings: hàm, cam, cám
咁: Nôm readings: cam, căm

Hán tự in this term
咁

Verb

咁

1. chữ Hán form of căm (“to bear resentment against”).

References

• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)