# 淦

| 淦 | U+6DE6, &#28134; 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 3811$_9$, 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

* 淦姓

### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 淦 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | 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 (gan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gam$^3$ / gaam$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): kàm / khàm
    (Teochew, Peng'im): gam$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: gàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gàn
*** Wade–Giles: kan$^4$
*** Yale: gàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gann
*** Palladius: гань (ganʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /kän⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gam$^3$ / gaam$^3$
*** Yale: gam / gaam
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gam$^3$ / gaam$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gem$^3$ / gam$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /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: gam$^3$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kàm
*** Sinological IPA : /kam²¹³/
* 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/ | /kʌm$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kəm/ | /kəm$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kɒm/ | /kɒm$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kəm/ | /kəm$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kᴀm/ | /kᴀm$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kɒm/ | /kɒm$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kăm/ | /kăm$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | gān | gàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gam$^1$ | gam$^3$ |
* 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
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of water) to leak into a boat
* (～水) Gan (a river in Jiangxi, China)
* a surname
* (Internet slang, vulgar) Alternative form of 幹 / 干 (“fuck”)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(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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