甜

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See also: 甛
甜 U+751C, 甜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-751C
← 甛
[U+751B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 甝 →
[U+751D]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

甜 (Kangxi radical 99, 甘+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹口廿一 (HRTM), four-corner 24670, composition ⿰舌甘)

Derived characters[edit]

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 754, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21656
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1161, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2414, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+751C

Chinese[edit]

trad. 甜
simp. # 甜
alternative forms
 
甛
䑚
䣶
餂／𱃺
𥑠
甛
䑚
䣶
餂／𱃺
𥑠
𦧩
𩚣
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 甜 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 甜 (Cantonese)

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 甜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (甜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
銛 *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
栝 *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
餂 *l̥ʰeːmʔ
恬 *l'eːm
湉 *l'eːm
甜 *l'iːm
狧 *l̥ʰaːb

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 舌 (“tongue”) + 甘 (“sweet”). Rearrangement of 甛.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ljam (“sweet; fragrant”) (STEDT). Compare Tibetan ཞིམ (zhim, “tasty”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • tiⁿ - vernacular;
  • tiâm - literary.
  • Wu
  • Xiang
    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location 甜
    Mandarin Beijing /tʰian³⁵/
    Harbin /tʰian²⁴/
    Tianjin /tʰian⁴⁵/
    Jinan /tʰiã⁴²/
    Qingdao /tʰiã⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /tʰian⁴²/
    Xi'an /tʰiã²⁴/
    Xining /tʰiã²⁴/
    Yinchuan /tʰian⁵³/
    Lanzhou /tʰiɛ̃n⁵³/
    Ürümqi /tʰian⁵¹/
    Wuhan /tʰiɛn⁴²/
    Chengdu /tʰian³¹/
    Guiyang /tʰian²¹/
    Kunming /tʰiɛ̃³¹/
    Nanjing /tʰien²⁴/
    Hefei /tʰiĩ⁵⁵/
    Jin Taiyuan /tʰie¹¹/
    Pingyao /tie̞¹³/
    Hohhot /tʰie³¹/
    Wu Shanghai /di²³/
    Suzhou /diɪ¹³/
    Hangzhou /diẽ̞²¹³/
    Wenzhou /di³¹/
    Hui Shexian /tʰe⁴⁴/
    Tunxi /tiɛ⁴⁴/
    Xiang Changsha /tiẽ¹³/
    Xiangtan /diẽ¹²/
    Gan Nanchang /tʰiɛn²⁴/
    Hakka Meixian /tʰiam¹¹/
    Taoyuan /tʰiɑm¹¹/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰim²¹/
    Nanning /tʰim²¹/
    Hong Kong /tʰim²¹/
    Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiam³⁵/
    /tĩ⁵⁵/ 俗
    Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tieŋ⁴⁴/
    Jian'ou (Min Bei) /taŋ²¹/
    Shantou (Min Nan) /tiam⁵⁵/
    Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdiam³¹/
    Rime
    Character 甜
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 定 (7)
    Final (韻) 添 (157)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) IV
    Fanqie 徒兼切
    Baxter dem
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/dem/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/dem/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/dɛm/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/dɛm/
    Li
    Rong         		/dem/
    Wang
    Li         		/diem/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/dʱiem/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		tián
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		tim4
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 甜
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 12408
    Phonetic
    component         		甜
    Rime
    group         		侵
    Rime
    subdivision         		2
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		甜
    Old
    Chinese         		/*l'iːm/

    Definitions[edit]

    甜

    1. sweet
    2. (figuratively) pleasant; comfortable; happy
    3. (figuratively, of sleep) sound
    4. (dialectal) bland; tasteless; not salty
    5. (dialectal) delicious; tasty
    6. (neologism, of a price) cheap; inexpensive
    7. (figuratively) romantic
    8. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Euphemistic form of 鹹／咸 (haam4, “erotic”).

    Synonyms[edit]

    Dialectal synonyms of 甜 (“sweet”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Classical Chinese 甘, 甜
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 甜
    Mandarin Beijing 甜
    Tianjin 甜
    Chengde 甜
    Tangshan 甜
    Cangzhou 甜
    Baoding 甜
    Shijiazhuang 甜
    Chifeng 甜
    Hulunbuir (Hailar) 甜
    Heihe 甜
    Qiqihar 甜
    Harbin 甜
    Jiamusi 甜
    Baicheng 甜
    Changchun 甜
    Tonghua 甜
    Shenyang 甜
    Dandong 甜
    Jinzhou 甜
    Dalian 甜
    Yantai 甜
    Yantai (Muping) 甜
    Qingdao 甜
    Lijin 甜
    Zhucheng 甜
    Jinan 甜
    Jining 甜
    Luoyang 甜
    Wanrong 甜
    Shangqiu 甜
    Yuanyang 甜
    Zhengzhou 甜
    Lingbao 甜
    Xinyang 甜
    Baihe 甜
    Hanzhong 甜
    Xi'an 甜
    Baoji 甜
    Yinchuan 甜
    Tianshui 甜
    Lanzhou 甜
    Dunhuang 甜
    Xining 甜
    Hami 甜
    Ürümqi 甜
    Wuhan 甜
    Yichang 甜
    Xiangyang 甜
    Tianmen 甜
    Hong'an 甜
    Chengdu 甜
    Nanchong 甜
    Dazhou 甜
    Hanyuan 甜
    Xichang 甜
    Zigong 甜
    Chongqing 甜
    Guiyang 甜
    Zunyi 甜
    Bijie 甜
    Liping 甜
    Zhaotong 甜
    Dali 甜
    Kunming 甜
    Mengzi 甜
    Guilin 甜
    Liuzhou 甜
    Jishou 甜
    Changde 甜
    Anqing 甜
    Xuzhou 甜
    Fuyang 甜
    Wuhu 甜
    Yangzhou 甜
    Lianyungang 甜
    Lianshui 甜
    Nanjing 甜
    Hefei 甜
    Nantong 甜
    Cantonese Guangzhou 甜
    Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 甜
    Hong Kong (Ting Kok) 甜
    Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) 甜
    Dongguan 甜
    Gan Nanchang 甜
    Lichuan 甜
    Pingxiang 甜
    Hakka Meixian 甜
    Yudu 甜
    Hong Kong 甜
    Huizhou Jixi 甜
    Shexian 甜
    Jin Taiyuan 甜
    Yangyuan 甜
    Datong 甜
    Xinzhou 甜
    Lishi 甜
    Linfen 甜
    Changzhi 甜
    Linhe 甜
    Jining 甜
    Hohhot 甜
    Erenhot 甜
    Pingshan 甜
    Zhangjiakou 甜
    Handan 甜
    Linzhou 甜
    Suide 甜
    Min Bei Jian'ou 甜
    Min Dong Fuzhou 甜
    Min Nan Xiamen 甜
    Tainan 甜
    Chaozhou 甜
    Leizhou 甜
    Haikou 甜
    Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 甜
    Wu Shanghai 甜
    Shanghai (Chongming) 甜
    Suzhou 甜
    Danyang 甜
    Hangzhou 甜
    Ningbo 甜
    Wenzhou 甜
    Jinhua 甜
    Xiang Changsha 甜
    Xiangxiang 甜
    Loudi 甜
    Shuangfeng 甜
    Dialectal synonyms of 淡 (“bland; tasteless; not salty”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 淡
    Mandarin Beijing 淡, 口輕
    Taiwan 淡
    Harbin 淡
    Yantai (Muping) 善
    Jinan 淡, 甜, 口輕
    Luoyang 甜
    Wanrong 甜
    Xi'an 甜, 淡
    Xining 甜, 淡
    Ürümqi 淡
    Wuhan 淡
    Chengdu 淡
    Guiyang 淡
    Guilin 淡
    Liuzhou 淡
    Xuzhou 淡
    Yangzhou 淡
    Nanjing 淡
    Hefei 淡
    Singapore 淡
    Cantonese Guangzhou 淡
    Hong Kong 淡
    Dongguan 淡
    Yangjiang 淡
    Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 淡
    Gan Nanchang 淡
    Lichuan 淡
    Pingxiang 淡
    Hakka Meixian 淡
    Yudu 淡
    Miaoli (N. Sixian) 淡
    Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 淡
    Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 淡
    Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 淡
    Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 淡
    Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 淡
    Senai (Huiyang) 淡
    Jin Taiyuan 淡, 甜
    Xinzhou 甜
    Min Bei Jian'ou 䭕
    Jian'ou (Dikou) 䭕
    Zhenghe (Zhenqian) 䭕
    Jianyang 䭕
    Wuyishan 䭕
    Pucheng (Shibei) 䭕
    Min Dong Fuzhou 䭕
    Changle 䭕
    Fuqing 䭕
    Yongtai 䭕
    Gutian 䭕
    Fu'an 䭕
    Ningde 䭕
    Shouning 䭕
    Zhouning 䭕
    Fuding 䭕
    Min Nan Xiamen 䭕
    Quanzhou 䭕
    Yongchun 䭕
    Zhangzhou 䭕
    Zhangzhou (Longhai) 䭕
    Zhangzhou (Changtai) 䭕
    Zhangpu 䭕
    Zhao'an 䭕
    Penang (Hokkien) 䭕
    Singapore (Hokkien) 䭕
    Chaozhou 䭕
    Shantou 䭕
    Shantou (Chenghai) 䭕
    Jieyang 䭕
    Haifeng 䭕
    Bangkok (Teochew) 䭕
    Johor Bahru (Teochew) 䭕
    Leizhou 䭕
    Haikou 䭕
    Puxian Min Putian 䭕
    Min Zhong Yong'an 䭕
    Shaxian 䭕
    Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 淡
    Wu Shanghai 淡
    Shanghai (Chongming) 淡
    Suzhou 淡
    Danyang 淡
    Hangzhou 淡
    Ningbo 淡
    Wenzhou 淡
    Jinhua 淡
    Xiang Changsha 淡
    Loudi 淡
    Shuangfeng 淡

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 甜

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    甜

    (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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    Readings[edit]

    • On (unclassified): てん (ten)
    • Kun: うまい (umai)

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    甜 (eumhun 달 첨 (dal cheom))

    1. Hanja form? of 첨 (“sweet”).

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    甜: Hán Nôm readings: điềm

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