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

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

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• 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/

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• 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/	/kʌmH/
Pan Wuyun	/kəm/	/kəmH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɒm/	/kɒmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəm/	/kəmH/
Li Rong	/kᴀm/	/kᴀmH/
Wang Li	/kɒm/	/kɒmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kăm/	/kămH/
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

1. ^† (of water) to leak into a boat
2. (～水) Gan (a river in Jiangxi, China)
3. a surname
4. (Internet slang, vulgar) Alternative form of 幹／干 (“fuck”)

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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