懇
懇 — gan
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 간절할 간
- Romanization
- gan
- English
- sincere, earnest, cordial
- Mandarin
- kěn
- Japanese on'yomi
- コン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ねんご.ろ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,135 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 心 (61, 13 residual)
- Unicode
- U+61C7
How 懇 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 懇 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 貇, 心.
Korean example words with 懇
- 간대懇待 Korean gloss: 후하게 대접함
- 간원懇願 Korean gloss: 간절하게 원함
- 간촉懇囑 Korean gloss: 간절히 부탁함
- 충간衷懇 Korean gloss: 충심으로 간청함
- 고간苦懇 Korean gloss: 몹시 간절하게 바람
- 간간懇諫 Korean gloss: 윗사람에게 잘못을 고치도록 간절히 말함
- 간구하다懇求 Korean gloss: 간절히 바라다
- 간권하다懇勸 Korean gloss: 간절히 권하다
- 간망하다懇望 Korean gloss: 간절히 바라다
- 간청하다懇請 Korean gloss: 간절히 청하다
- 간지하다懇摯 Korean gloss: 지성스럽고 참되다
- 간측하다懇惻 Korean gloss: 간절하고 지성스럽다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 懇
- 懇談こんだん friendly chat; relaxed conversation; informal meeting
- 懇親こんしん friendship; intimacy
- 懇話こんわ friendly talk; chat
- 懇意こんい friendship; (on) familiar terms; intimacy
- 懇切こんせつ kind and careful (instruction, explanation, etc.); considerate; helpful
- 懇願こんがん pleading; entreaty; supplication
- 懇請こんせい appeal; entreaty; request
- 懇ろねんごろ kind; courteous; hospitable
- 懇情こんじょう kindliness
- 懇篤こんとく cordial; kind; warm
- 懇望こんもう entreaty; solicitation; earnest request
- 別懇べっこん intimacy
Other hanja read “간”
Other hanja with radical 心
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