甜

See also: 甛

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 憇, 㵇, 𭗌

Related characters

• 甛 (Orthodox form in Kangxi dictionary)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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Chinese

trad.		甜
simp. #		甜
alternative forms		甛 䑚 䣶 餂／𱃺 𥑠 甛 䑚 䣶 餂／𱃺 𥑠 𦧩 𩚣

Glyph origin

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／会意) : 舌 (“tongue”) + 甘 (“sweet”). Rearrangement of 甛.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ljam (“sweet; fragrant”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甜

1. sweet
2. sweetness
3. (figurative) pleasant; comfortable; happy
4. (figurative, of sleep) sound

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

甜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

甜 • (cheom) (hangeul 첨)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 甜 (điềm)

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