Radical 99

甘
98 ⽡ ◄	99	► ⽣ 100
Pinyin :	gān (= sweet)
Zhuyin :	ㄍ ㄢ
Hiragana :	あ ま い amai
Kanji :	甘 amai (= sweet)
Hangul :	달
Sinocorean :	감 came (= sweet)
Codepoint :	U + 7518
Stroke sequence :

Radical 99 , meaning “ sweet ”, is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with five strokes.

With 3 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon. Modern reference works such as the Xiandai Hanyu Cidian and the Xinhua dictionary do not list 甘 as a radical. There it is under his first line to look up the 一 horizontal line.

The radical "sweet" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 99th position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Sino-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 135th position.

In the seal script form a significantly mouth to recognize where a small horizontal line indicates that something is in the mouth. And food in the mouth is perceived as beneficial.

In the compound symbol, however, 甘 functions primarily as a sound carrier as in:

泔 (in: 泔水 = wastewater),

疳 (= digestive disorders),

坩 (= ceramic goods),

柑 (= orange),

绀 (= purple),

蚶 (a type of edible clam) and

酣 (han = eat and drink to your heart's content).

甜 (= sweet) is a combined symbol made up of the components radical 135舌 (= tongue) and radical 99 甘 (= sweet).

The name of the western Chinese province of Gansu (Gānsù 甘肃 or 甘肅) has nothing to do with the meaning of "sweet". Rather, it is composed of the initial syllables of the cities of Gan zhou ( Zhangye ) and Su zhou ( Jiuquan ).

Character compounds ruled by radical 99

Strokes	character
+ 00	甘
+ 03	甙
+ 04	甚
+ 06	甛 甜
+ 08	甝 甞

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 99 is coded under the code point number 12.130 (U + 2F62).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 226 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 99  - Graphic representations of Radikal 99

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 99 on page 93