gān
sweetness
Pictograph of something sweet inside the mouth (口).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 甘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sweet | ||
Gansu province, abbr. 甘[Gān], short name 隴|陇[Lǒng], capital Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lánzhōu] | ||
glycerine | ||
delighted to (do sth, idiom) | ||
to be willing to |
Component uses
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤ[a]m | kam | gān | sweet |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.7229% of movies
1829th most common character in movies
1408th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+7518 |
Shuowen | “甘,美也。从口含一。一,道也。” |
Sources
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