Kanji1 / 5
甘 kanji
sweet, coax, pamper, be content, sugary
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カン
Kun readings
あまいあまえるあまやかすうまい
Words with 甘
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —甘露煮candied (chestnuts); sweetened boiled fish
- —甘蔗糖cane sugar
- —甘味処cafe featuring Japanese-style sweets
- —新甘泉shinkansen pear; hybrid nashi developed in Tottori prefecture
- —甘粛省Gansu Province (China)
- —甘松香spikenard (essential oil, perfume); nard
- —甘扁桃sweet almond
- —甘露水sweetened water; sugar water; syrup; nectar
- —甘露酒sweet sake (brewed with a higher proportion of kōji and less water); rich sweet sake; sweet liquor made by boiling egg and mirin with kudzu starch, aconite and cinnamon
- —辛酸甘苦hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; being well-versed in the ways of the world (having seen much of life)
- —緑葉甘藍kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
- —球茎甘藍kohlrabi
- —羽衣甘藍kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
- —甘言蜜語honeyed words; flattery
- —人工甘味料artificial sweetener
- —子持ち甘藍Brussels sprout
- —合成甘味料artificial sweetener; synthetic sweetener
- —甘言は偶人を喜ばすsweet words only please a fool; flattery works on puppets and fools
- —待てば甘露の日和ありgood things come to those who wait; if you wait, there will come a fine day of nectar (falling from the sky)
- —甘薯sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)