甘
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(bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with 苦[ku3]: bitter, unpleasant); to be willing (to do sth)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 甘 itself
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 甘
- Common rank
- #829
- Unicode
- U+7518
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Formation & memory
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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.
Words with 甘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉马特甘 | Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University | |
| 不甘人后 | (idiom) not want to be outdone; not content to lag behind | |
| 不甘后人 | (idiom) not want to be outdone; not content to lag behind | |
| 甘南藏族自治州 | Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3] | |
| 不甘心 | not reconciled to; not resigned to | |
| 甘德县 | Gadê, a county in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 果洛藏族自治州[Guo3 luo4 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4… | |
| 甘南县 | 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 | Ganzhou, a district of Zhangye City 張掖市|张掖市[Zhang1 ye4 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 阿甘正传 | Forrest Gump | |
| 甘巴里 | Ibrahim Gambari (1944–), Nigerian diplomat and academic | |
| 甘南州 | see 甘南藏族自治州[Gan1 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] | |
| 食之无味，弃之不甘 | 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 | Gambia (Tw) | |
| 不甘于 | unwilling to accept; not content with (a subservient role, a mediocre result etc) | |
| 不甘 | unreconciled to; not resigned to; unwilling | |
| 甘托克 | Gantok, capital of Sikkim, India | |
| 心甘 | to be willing; to be satisfied | |
| 甘心 | to be willing to; to resign oneself to | |
| 甘井子区 | Ganjingzi, a district of Dalian City 大連市|大连市[Da4 lian2 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 甘地 | (Mahatma) Gandhi |
Sound family
These characters use 甘 as their sound component — compare how they read.