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感

感

See also: 惑

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

感 (radical 61 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈口心 (IRP), four-corner 53330, composition ⿱咸心)

  1. feel, perceive
  2. emotion

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 395, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10953
  • Dae Jaweon: page 733, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2321, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+611F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 感

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 感
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (咸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
感 *kɯːmʔ
鱤 *kɯːmʔ
顑 *kʰɯːmʔ, *ŋɡrɯːms
轗 *kʰɯːmʔ, *kʰɯːms
撼 *ɡɯːmʔ
憾 *ɡɯːms
喊 *qʰaːmʔ, *qʰrɯːmʔ, *ɡrɯːmʔ
緘 *krɯːm
瑊 *krɯːm, *kjum
黬 *krɯːm, *ŋɡrɯːm
減 *krɯːmʔ, *ɡrɯːmʔ
羬 *ŋɡrɯːm, *ɡram
麙 *ŋɡrɯːm
咸 *ɡrɯːm
鹹 *ɡrɯːm
醎 *ɡrɯːm
諴 *ɡrɯːm
椷 *ɡrɯːm
輱 *ɡrɯːm
鍼 *ɡam, *ɡram, *kjɯm
箴 *kjɯm
葴 *kjɯm
鱵 *kjum

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯːmʔ) : phonetic 咸 ‎(OC *ɡrɯːm) + semantic 心 ‎(“heart”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 感
Mandarin Beijing /kan²¹⁴/
Harbin /kan²¹³/
Tianjin /kan¹³/
Jinan /kã⁵⁵/
Qingdao /kã⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kan⁵³/
Xi'an /kã⁵³/
Xining /kã⁵³/
Yinchuan /kan⁵³/
Lanzhou /kɛ̃n⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /kan⁵¹/
Wuhan /kan⁴²/
Chengdu /kan⁵³/
Guiyang /kan⁴²/
Kunming /kã̠⁵³/
Nanjing /kaŋ²¹²/
Hefei /kæ̃²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /kæ̃⁵³/
Pingyao /kɑŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /kæ̃⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /kø³⁵/
Suzhou /kø⁵¹/
Hangzhou /kẽ̞⁵³/
Wenzhou /ky³⁵/
Hui Shexian /kɛ³⁵/
Tunxi /kɛ³¹/
Xiang Changsha /kan⁴¹/
Xiangtan /kan⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /kɵn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kam³¹/
Taoyuan /kɑm³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɐm³⁵/
Nanning /kam³⁵/
Hong Kong /kɐm³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kam⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kaŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kɔŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kam⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kam²¹³/
Rime
Character 感
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古禫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʌmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kəmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɒmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəmX/
Li
Rong		 /kᴀmX/
Wang
Li		 /kɒmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kămX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 感
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ komX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤ[ə]mʔ/
English move (emotionally) (v.t.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 感
Reading # 1/1
No. 13498
Phonetic
component		 咸
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 感
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯːmʔ/

Noun

感

  1. feeling; sensation

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

感

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. feeling, sensation, emotion

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
感
かん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 感 ‎(komX).

Pronunciation

Noun

感 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan)

  1. feeling
    虚無 (きょむ)感 (かん)
    kyomukan
    feeling of emptiness

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

感 • ‎(gam) (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune-Reischauer kam, Yale kam)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

感 (cảm, cám)

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Compounds

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