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甘
甘
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

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]

^ "Jōyō Kanji Hyō" 常用漢字表 [List of Joyo Kanji] (PDF) (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
^ "KANJI-Link". www.kanji-link.com. Retrieved 2023-06-02.

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.