がん

See also: かん and ガン

Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of がん – see the following entries.

【丸】2	[affix] round; circular [noun] a meatball, fishball [noun] a pill [proper noun] a surname
【岩】2	[affix] rock
【顔】2	[affix] look; face; expression [affix] color
【岸】3	[affix] bank; coast; shore
【願】4	[affix] desire; wish [affix] pray [noun] a prayer
【雁】J	[noun] wild goose Alternative spellings 鴈, ガン
【巌】J	[affix] (only found in compounds) a rock, crag, or boulder
【癌】H	[noun] (medicine, oncology, pathology) cancer [noun] (figurative) cancer Alternative spelling ガン

(This term, がん, is an alternative spelling of the above Sino-Japanese terms.
For a list of all kanji read as がん, not just those used in Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji read as がん.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 元, 眼, 含, 玩, 頑, 翫, 贋.)

Adverb

がん • (gan)

(onomatopoeia): evoking the sound made by a bell, or by striking an object: gong, clang, wham, conk, bang
がんと壁(かべ)にぶつかった。
Gan to kabe ni butsukatta.
He hit the wall with a wham.

Yoron

Noun

がん (romaji gan)

蟹: crab