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甘 kanji
sweet, coax, pamper, be content, sugary
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Secondary school
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カン
Kun readings
あまいあまえるあまやかすうまい
Words with 甘
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —甘言Popularsweet words; smooth talk; cajolery; flattery; sycophancy
- —甘美Popularsweet (taste); luscious; sweet (melody, dream, etc.); delightful; pleasant; mellow; mellifluous
- —甘味料Popularsweetener (sugar, honey, saccharin, maltose, etc.); sweetening agent; sweetening
- —甘受submitting to (a demand, one's fate, etc.); putting up with; resigning oneself to; accepting (without complaint)
- —甘草liquorice; licorice
- —甘露nectar; sweetness; honeydew
- —甘心satisfaction
- —甘苦sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows
- —甘酸sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows
- —甘蔗sugar cane
- —甘夢sweet (pleasant) dreams
- —甘菜sugar beet
- —甘藍cabbage
- —甘汞calomel (mercury chloride)
- —甘蕉banana
- —甘井well with good-tasting water
- —甘味sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake; charm; appeal; taste; flavour; flavor
- —甘松spikenard; nard
- —甘精saccharine
- —甘熟ripening to sweetness (of fruit, etc.); maturing into sweetness