Chinese Character Wiki

泔

gān

water from washing rice to boil thick

Sweet 甘 water 氵; 甘 also provides the pronunciation

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

甘 sound,meaning component

甘  Sound Meaning component

gān

  

sweetness

Evolution

泔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
泔 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
泔 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
泔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
泔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

泔  

gān

water from washing rice to boil thick, as gruel; slop from rinsing rice

Most common words with 泔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

泔水

slop

泔

slop from rinsing rice

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5880th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CD4

Shuowen

“泔，周謂潘曰泔。从水，甘聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License