感
to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~
13 strokes
Dict coverage rank #360 U+611F
How 感 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Two hearts 心 beating together 咸
How to remember it
feel · Heisig RSH #576
咸 salty + 心 heart
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 感 as their sound component
These characters all use 感 (gǎn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 感 sound component | gǎn | to affect, to move, to touch; to perceive, to sense |
| 撼 | hàn | to incite, to move, to shake |
| 憾 | hàn | regret, remorse |
Words containing 感
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 感天动地 | gǎn tiān dòng dì | (idiom) deeply affecting |
| 感性工学 | gǎn xìng gōng xué | kansei engineering (product design that aims to engender specific subjective responses in … |
| 无力感 | wú lì gǎn | feeling of powerlessness; sense of helplessness |
| 生物传感器 | shēng wù chuán gǎn qì | biosensor |
| 天人感应 | tiān rén gǎn yìng | interactions between heaven and mankind (Han Dynasty doctrine) |
| 动感单车 | dòng gǎn dān chē | spin class; indoor cycling class (a type of group fitness class); exercise bike used in su… |
| 有感而发 | yǒu gǎn ér fā | (idiom) to express thoughts or feelings prompted by one's experience or observations |
| 心电感应 | xīn diàn gǎn yìng | telepathy |
| 克流感 | Kè liú gǎn | (Tw) Tamiflu |
| 感情用事 | gǎn qíng yòng shì | to act impetuously (idiom); on an impulse |
| 感人 | gǎn rén | touching; moving |
| 交感神经 | jiāo gǎn shén jīng | sympathetic nervous system |
| 感生 | gǎn shēng | (mythology) to conceive or give birth by non-sexual or divine means; (physics) induced (ma… |
| 无感 | wú gǎn | not felt or perceived; to feel nothing about; indifferent; unimpressed |
| 性感 | xìng gǎn | sex appeal; eroticism; sexuality; sexy |
| 感性 | gǎn xìng | perception; perceptual; sensibility; sensitive; emotional; sentimental |
| 安全感 | ān quán gǎn | sense of security |
| 动感 | dòng gǎn | sense of movement (often in a static work of art); dynamic; vivid; lifelike |
| 感动 | gǎn dòng | to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving |
| 感化 | gǎn huà | corrective influence; to reform (a criminal); redemption (of a sinner); to influence (a ma… |