Radical 99

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|99|uni=7518

|meaning=sweet

|pny= gān

|bopo= ㄍㄢ

|gr= gan

|wade= kan1

|jyutping= gam1

|yale= gām

|cn=

|onyomi= カン kan

|kunyomi= あま-い ama-i

|jp= 甘/あまい amai
甘/かん kan

|hang= 달 dal

|hanja= 감 gam

}}

Radical 99 or radical sweet ({{Lang|zh-Hant|甘部}}) meaning "sweet" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|甘}} is also the 101st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

File:甘-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:甘-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:甘-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:甘-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|甘}}
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| +3

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|𤮾}} {{Linktext|𤮿}} {{Linktext|甙}}
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|甚}}
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| +5

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|㽍}}
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|甛}} {{Linktext|甜}}
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| +8

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|㽎}} {{Linktext|甝}} {{Linktext|甞}} (={{Linktext|嘗}} -> )
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|㽏}}
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| +10

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|㽐}} {{Linktext|𤯊}}
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| +12

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|㽑}}
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| +17

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|𤯑}}

Sinogram

{{Interlanguage link|甘|fr||ja||zh}} is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language.{{cite web |title=Jōyō Kanji Hyō |script-title=ja:常用漢字表 |trans-title=List of Joyo Kanji |url=https://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf |access-date=November 7, 2018 |publisher=Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan |language=ja}} It is a secondary school kanji.{{Cite web |title=KANJI-Link |url=http://www.kanji-link.com/en/kanji/grade/ |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=www.kanji-link.com |language=en}}

See also

References

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Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}