tián

sweet

Depicts the tongue () tasting something sweet ().

Components
舌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shé

  

tongue

甘 meaning component

  Meaning component

gān

  

sweetness

Evolution

甜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
甜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

tián

sweet, sweetness; sweet

Most common words with 甜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

sweet

甜蜜

sweet

甜美

sweet

甜品

dessert

甜言蜜语

sweet talk

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 38.9556% of movies

922nd most common character in movies

2020th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+751C

Shuowen

“甛,美也。从甘,从舌。舌,知甘者。”


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