Radical 99

甘
← 98 Radical 99 (U+2F62) 100 →
甘 (U+7518) "sweet"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gān
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄢ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	gan
Wade–Giles:	kan1
Cantonese Yale:	gām
Jyutping:	gam1
Japanese Kana:	カン kan (on'yomi) あま-い ama-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	감 gam
Names
Japanese name(s):	甘/あまい amai 甘/かん kan
Hangul:	달 dal
Stroke order animation

Radical 99 or radical sweet (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.

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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	甘
+3	𤮾 𤮿 甙
+4	甚
+5	㽍
+6	甛 甜
+8	㽎 甝 甞 (=嘗 -> 口)
+9	㽏
+10	㽐 𤯊
+12	㽑
+17	𤯑

Sinogram

甘 [fr; ja; zh] is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language.^[1] It is a secondary school kanji.^[2]

See also

• List of jōyō kanji

References

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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