甘美

Chinese

sweet; willingly; Gansu province (abbrev.) beautiful; beauty; America
trad. (甘美)
simp. #(甘美)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (4)
Final () (143) (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter kam mijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɑm/ /mˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɑm/ /mᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɑm/ /miɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kam/ /mjiX/
Li
Rong
/kɑm/ /mjiX/
Wang
Li
/kɑm/ /miX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kɑm/ /miX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gam1 mei5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gān měi
Middle
Chinese
‹ kam › ‹ mijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˁ[a]m/ /*[m]rəjʔ/
English sweet beautiful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 3652 8951
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaːm/ /*mriʔ/
Notes

Adjective

甘美

  1. (of taste) sweet and delicious
  2. (figurative, of life) happy; sweet

Synonyms

Noun

甘美

  1. (literary) delicious food

Japanese

Kanji in this term
かん
Grade: S

Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Adjective

(かん)() • (kanbi) -na (adnominal (かん)() (kanbi na), adverbial (かん)() (kanbi ni))

  1. sweet and delicious
  2. pleasant and attractive; fascinating

Inflection

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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