Radical
Strokes
12
Residual strokes
9
Mandarin
kān
Teochew

Glyph

Radical
Residual strokes
9 strokes
Strokes
12 strokes
Mandarin
kān

Definitions by reading

kam1
Mandarin equivalent kān
Regional readings
19th-century Fucheng kam1 Chaoyang kam1 Chenghai kang1 Jieyang kam1 Raoping kam1 Shantou kam1
①可以,能够:堪当重任
②能支持:难堪
潮汕十八音字典(杨扬发) - 2001

GuangyunPhonological reconstruction

1
溪母 一等 開口 覃韵 平声 口含切
Reconstruction:
Original

任也,勝也,克也。說文曰:「地突也。」又姓。風俗通云:「八元仲堪之後。」