淦

淦	U+6DE6, 淦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DE6

← 淥
[U+6DE5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

淧 →
[U+6DE7]

Translingual

Han character

淦 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水金 (EC), four-corner 3811₉, composition ⿰氵金)

Derived characters

𡙯, 𰝵

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 630, character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17667
Dae Jaweon: page 1033, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1653, character 3
Unihan data for U+6DE6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 淦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (金) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
淦	kɯːm, kɯːms
顉	ŋɯːmʔ, ŋ̊ʰrɯm, *ŋ̊ʰɯmʔ
金	*krɯm
錦	*krɯmʔ
欽	*kʰrɯm
菳	*kʰrɯm
嶔	*kʰrɯm
撳	*kʰrɯms
捦	*ɡrɯm
鵭	*ɡrɯm
唫	ɡrɯmʔ, ŋɡrɯm
鈙	*ɡrɯms
崟	*ŋɡrɯm
趛	*ŋɡrɯmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kɯːm, *kɯːms): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 金 (OC *krɯm).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gàn (gan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gam³ / gaam³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): kàm / khàm

(Teochew, Peng'im): gam³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gàn
  - Wade–Giles: kan⁴
  - Yale: gàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gann
  - Palladius: гань (ganʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gam³ / gaam³
  - Yale: gam / gaam
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gam³ / gaam³
  - Guangdong Romanization: gem³ / gam³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm³³/, /kaːm³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kàm
  - Tâi-lô: kàm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kaxm
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kam⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /kam²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kam¹¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khàm
  - Tâi-lô: khàm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qaxm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰam²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: gam³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kàm
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kam²¹³/

Middle Chinese: kom, komH

Rime
Character	淦	淦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古南切	古暗切
Baxter	kom	komH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʌm/	/kʌm^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kəm/	/kəm^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kɒm/	/kɒm^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəm/	/kəm^H/
Li Rong	/kᴀm/	/kᴀm^H/
Wang Li	/kɒm/	/kɒm^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kăm/	/kăm^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gān	gàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam¹	gam³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kɯːm/, /*kɯːms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淦	淦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6676	6677
Phonetic component	金	金
Rime group	侵	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	弇	紺
Old Chinese	/*kɯːm/	/*kɯːms/

Definitions

淦

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of water) to leak into a boat
(～水) Gan (a river in Jiangxi, China)
a surname
(Internet slang, vulgar) alternative form of 幹 / 干 (“fuck”)

Derived terms

新淦 (Xīngàn)
淦水 (Gànshuǐ)

Japanese

Kanji

淦

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: こん (kon)
Kan-on: かん (kan)
Kun: あか (aka, 淦)、どろ (doro)

Korean

Hanja

淦 • (geom) (hangeul 검, revised geom, McCune–Reischauer kŏm, Yale kem)

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