Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also:
U+67D1, 柑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67D1

[U+67D0]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+67D2]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 75, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木廿一 (DTM), four-corner 44970, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 519, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14619
  • Dae Jaweon: page 907, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1177, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+67D1

Chinese

More information simp. and trad., alternative forms ...

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaːm): semantic (wood; tree) + phonetic (OC *kaːm). Similar but unrelated to .

Etymology 1

Either the same etymon as (OC *kaːm, “sweet”) (Wang, 1982), or, in light of the citrus fruit's southern origin, possibly connected with Austroasiatic; compare Proto-Austroasiatic *ŋaːm (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • gang1 - literary;
  • gor1/gornn1 - vernacular.

More information Rime, Character ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. mandarin orange
  2. tangerine
  3. (dialectal Hakka, Mingxi Min, Waxiang) pomelo
Synonyms
Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (かん) (kan)
  • Vietnamese: cam ()

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to grab; to pinch; to cling; to grip tightly; etc.”).
(This character is an obsolete form of ).
Remove ads

Japanese

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: かん (kan)かん (kan, historical)かむ (kamu, ancient)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan)かん (kan, historical)かむ (kamu, ancient)
  • Kun: みかん (mikan, )

Etymology

More information Kanji in this term ...

From Middle Chinese (MC kam).

Pronunciation

Affix

(かん) (kan) 

  1. citrus fruit

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

(gam, geom) (hangeul , , revised gam, geom, McCuneReischauer kam, kŏm, Yale kam, kem)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: cam, cùm

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads