surname Gan / abbr. for Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 甘 just looks like a cow's head to me.

In front of the anthill, Guy Fawkes wants to drink the cow's sweet, sweet milk. He already organized a capacitor as electric shocker. The cow is not willing to surrender at all, though: she is ready to defend herself with a double axe.
sweet / willing

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 甘 just looks like a cow's head to me.

In front of the anthill, Guy Fawkes wants to drink the cow's sweet, sweet milk. He already organized a capacitor as electric shocker. The cow is not willing to surrender at all, though: she is ready to defend herself with a double axe.

甘 character breakdown

two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

= : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).
twenty, twentieth

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a double axe. Here's why: 20 -> XX -> "double-x" -> "double axe". Nefertiti (ni) is rebuilding her kingdom in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She's shaping twenty (卄) dinosaur bones (丨) with a double axe (卄) and stacking them on top of one (一) flute (一).

Characters with 甘 as component

some / a certain / sb or sth indefinite / such-and-such

= + : Mnemonic symbol: someone playing "somewhere over the rainbow" on an ukulele.

In the outhouse, the cow has climbed a large Christmas tree and now she's too afraid and panicked to climb down again. Mahatma Gandhi comes to help with his ukulele, playing "somewhere over the rainbow" to calm down the cow.
sweet

= + : In the anthill's kitchen (an2), mother Theresa (ti) and the cow (甘) lick each other with their tongues (舌) and find that they are super sweet (甜).
what / very / extremely / any

= + : Mnemonic symbol: An extremist.

Sherlock Holmes is in the middle of one of his adventures: in the encampment's bathroom he found an extremist threatening a cow. With his keen eyes though he sees that the extremist's bombing belt is fake and just made out of bolts of thread, so he bravely jumps in to rescue the frightened cow.
variant of 什[shen2]
see 赤嵌樓|赤嵌楼[Chi4 kan3 lou2]
to inlay / to embed / Taiwan pr. [qian1]

= + + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) still has the cow's (甘) IOU note (欠). Because the cow cannot pay its dept the Queen uses a fork (山) to inlay (嵌) the cow into her new throne in the anthill's bathroom (an4).
pincers / pliers / tongs / claw (of animal) / to grasp with pincers / to pinch / to clamp / to restrain / to restrict / to gag
intoxicated
licorice / glycoside
name of a district in Hebei
large tangerine

Words with 甘

delighted to (do sth, idiom) / perfectly happy to do / most willing to do
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows / for better or for worse
lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment
to have a sweet aftertaste
to be willing / to be satisfied
diethylene glycol / glycerin (used in antifreeze)
Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University
Matricaria recutita / chamomile
Brussels sprouts (Brassica oleracea L. var. gemmifera)
to share joys and sorrows / sharing good times and hard times / same as 同甘共苦
to leave the matter at that / to be prepared to let go / to be willing to take things lying down

Sentences with 甘

甘 currently does not appear in any sentence.