甘
(bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with 苦[ku3]: bitter, unpleasant); to be willing (to do sth)
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #829 U+7518
How 甘 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Picture of a tongue with 一 marking the sweet spot
How to remember it
sweet · Heisig RSH #1333
— as a component also called: wicker basket
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 甘 as their sound component
These characters all use 甘 (gān) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甘 sound component | gān | sweet, tasty; willing |
| 钳 | qián | pincers, pliers, tongs; to compress |
| 酣 | hān | to enjoy liquor |
| 邯 | hán | a district in Hebei province |
| 坩 | gān | crucible; earthenware, pottery |
| 绀 | gàn | purple, violet |
| 拑 | qián | to clamp, to pin down, to tie down |
| 疳 | gān | rickets, chickenpox; childhood disease |
Words containing 甘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉马特甘 | Lā mǎ tè Gān | Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University |
| 不甘人后 | bù gān rén hòu | (idiom) not want to be outdone; not content to lag behind |
| 不甘后人 | bù gān hòu rén | (idiom) not want to be outdone; not content to lag behind |
| 甘南藏族自治州 | Gān nán Zàng zú Zì zhì zhōu | Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3] |
| 不甘心 | bù gān xīn | not reconciled to; not resigned to |
| 甘德县 | Gān dé Xiàn | Gadê, a county in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 果洛藏族自治州[Guo3 luo4 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4… |
| 甘南县 | Gān nán Xiàn | Gannan, a county in Qiqihar City 齊齊哈爾市|齐齐哈尔市[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3 Shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 甘州区 | Gān zhōu Qū | Ganzhou, a district of Zhangye City 張掖市|张掖市[Zhang1 ye4 Shi4], Gansu |
| 阿甘正传 | Ā gān Zhèng zhuàn | Forrest Gump |
| 甘巴里 | Gān bā lǐ | Ibrahim Gambari (1944–), Nigerian diplomat and academic |
| 甘南州 | Gān nán Zhōu | see 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] |
| 食之无味，弃之不甘 | shí zhī wú wèi , qì zhī bù gān | see 食之無味，棄之可惜|食之无味，弃之可惜[shi2 zhi1 wu2 wei4 , qi4 zhi1 ke3 xi1] |
| 甘比亚 | Gān bǐ yà | Gambia (Tw) |
| 不甘于 | bù gān yú | unwilling to accept; not content with (a subservient role, a mediocre result etc) |
| 不甘 | bù gān | unreconciled to; not resigned to; unwilling |
| 甘托克 | Gān tuō kè | Gantok, capital of Sikkim, India |
| 心甘 | xīn gān | to be willing; to be satisfied |
| 甘心 | gān xīn | to be willing to; to resign oneself to |
| 甘井子区 | Gān jǐng zi Qū | Ganjingzi, a district of Dalian City 大連市|大连市[Da4 lian2 Shi4], Liaoning |
| 甘地 | Gān dì | (Mahatma) Gandhi |