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甘

gān

Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

gān · gam1 (Jyutping)

  1. short name for Gansu 甘肅|甘肃[Gan1 su4]
  2. (bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with 苦[ku3]: bitter, unpleasant)
  3. to be willing (to do sth)
  4. surname Gan

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

甘

Meaning
sweetness; sweet, tasty
Radical
甘
Strokes
5
Components
⿵卄二
Cangjie
TM
Four-corner
4477.0

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