Hanja Analyzer
感

感 — gam

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
느낄 감
Romanization
gam
English
feel, perceive, emotion
Mandarin
gǎn
Japanese on'yomi
カン, コン, ゴン
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 3
Newspaper frequency
#233 of 2,500
Strokes
13
Radical
心 (61, 9 residual)
Phonetic component
咸
Unicode
U+611F

Parts that make up 感

  • 咸 다 함sound 도끼와 입‘함·감’ 계열의 소리
  • 心 마음 심 심장을 본뜬 것느낌과 생각, 마음의 움직임

How 感 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 感 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 咸, 心.

Korean example words with 感

  • 감지感知 Korean gloss: 느끼어 앎
  • 분감憤感 Korean gloss: 분한 감정
  • 독감毒感 Korean gloss: 지독한 감기
  • 시감詩感 Korean gloss: 시적인 감흥
  • 사감私感 Korean gloss: 사사로운 감정
  • 색감色感 Korean gloss: 색에 대한 감각
  • 소감所感 Korean gloss: 마음에 느낀 바
  • 감환感患 Korean gloss: ‘감기’의 높임말
  • 미감微感 Korean gloss: 가벼운 감기 기운
  • 동감動感 Korean gloss: 움직이는 듯한 느낌
  • 둔감鈍感 Korean gloss: 무딘 감정이나 감각
  • 황감惶感 Korean gloss: 황송하고 감격스러움

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 感

  • 感じかんじ feeling; sense; impression
  • 感覚かんかく sense; sensation; feeling
  • 感染かんせん infection; contagion; becoming infected
  • 感情かんじょう emotion; feeling; feelings
  • 感想かんそう impressions; thoughts; feelings
  • 感動かんどう being deeply moved emotionally; excitement; passion
  • 感謝かんしゃ thanks; gratitude; appreciation
  • 実感じっかん real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel
  • 敏感びんかん sensitive; alert; aware
  • 感性かんせい sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
  • 痛感つうかん feeling keenly; fully realizing
  • 感じるかんじる to feel; to sense; to experience

Characters sharing the phonetic 咸

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “감”

Other hanja with radical 心

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