U+7518 "甘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

甘

U+7518 "甘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "sweet" or "pleasant," often associated with taste and flavor, and is also used as a phonetic component in other characters. Its radical is the "sweet" radical itself (甘), and it appears in compounds related to sweetness, willingness, or voluntary action, such as in the word "甘心" meaning "willingly" or "contentedly." In addition to its literal sense, the character carries cultural connotations of harmony and satisfaction, and it is occasionally used as a surname or in historical contexts. The character is composed of five strokes in a specific stroke order that suggests a mouth containing a sweet morsel, reflecting its etymology rooted in a pictograph of something delicious.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7518
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	甘
HTML Hex Encoding	甘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x94 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7518
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007518
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7518

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

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kCihaiT	905.303
kCowles	1750
kDaeJaweon	1161.010
kDefinition	sweetness; sweet, tasty
kEACC	214B76
kFanqie	古三
kFenn	101C
kFennIndex	238.01
kFourCornerCode	4477.0
kGB0	2442
kGB1	2442
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kHangul	감:0E
kHanYu	42413.010
kHanyuPinlu	gān(42)
kHanyuPinyin	42413.010:gān,hān
kHDZRadBreak	⽢[U+2F62]:42413.010
kHKGlyph	2600
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kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42413.010
kIRGKangXi	0753.190
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kIRG_HSource	HB1-A5CC
kIRG_JSource	J0-3445
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-CDF7
kIRG_KSource	K0-4A76
kIRG_TSource	T1-466C
kIRG_VSource	V1-5F44
kJapanese	カンコンあまいあまえるあまやかすあまんじるうまい
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:205
kJapaneseKun	AMAI UMAI AMANJIRU
kJapaneseOn	KAN
kJis0	2037
kKangXi	0753.190
kKarlgren	298
kKorean	KAM
kLau	834
kMainlandTelegraph	3927
kMandarin	gān
kMatthews	3223
kMeyerWempe	1221
kMojiJoho	MJ017611
kMorohashi	21643
kNelson	2988
kPhonetic	564A 650
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1537+99.5.0
kRSUnicode	99.0
kSBGY	223.39
kSMSZD2003Index	435.15
kSMSZD2003Readings	gān粵gam1
kTaiwanTelegraph	3927
kTang	*gɑm
kTGHZ2013	105.150:gān
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	cam
kXerox	245:361
kXHC1983	0355.010:gān