蜜柑

Chinese

		honey	large tangerine
simp. and trad. (蜜柑)		蜜	柑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mìgān

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˋ ㄍㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mat⁶ gam¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bi̍t-kam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mìgān
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˋ ㄍㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mìgan
    • Wade–Giles: mi⁴-kan¹
    • Yale: mì-gān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mihgan
    • Palladius: мигань (miganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi⁵¹ kän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mat⁶ gam¹
    • Yale: maht gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁹ gam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: med⁶ gem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚² kɐm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bi̍t-kam
    • Tâi-lô: bi̍t-kam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bidkafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bit̚⁴⁻³² kam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bit̚²⁴⁻² kam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bit̚¹²¹⁻²¹ kam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bit̚⁴⁻³² kam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bit̚⁴⁻³² kam⁴⁴/

Noun

蜜柑

1. mandarin orange
2. tangerine

Synonyms

• 柑子 (gānzi)
• 橘子 (júzi)
• 甌柑／瓯柑 (ōugān)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蜜	柑
みつ > みっ Grade: S	かん Jinmeiyō
goon

Probably from Middle Chinese 蜜柑 (MC mjit kam, literally “honey + citrus”). Compare modern Mandarin reading mìgān.

Obsolete reading.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʲik̚kã̠ɴ]

Noun

蜜(みっ)柑(かん) • (mikkan) 

1. (obsolete) a satsuma tree, a mikan tree: a particular variety of mandarin orange, Citrus unshiu (fruit)
2. (obsolete) a satsuma (fruit), a mikan: a particular variety of mandarin orange, Citrus unshiu (fruit)
3. (obsolete) citrus fruit in general

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蜜	柑
みつ > み Grade: S	かん Jinmeiyō
irregular	goon

/mikkan/ → /mikan/

Shift in pronunciation from mikkan above. This change occurred sometime after the 1603 publication of the Japanese-Portuguese Nippo Jisho, which still lists the reading as mikkan.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) み​かん [míꜜkàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mʲikã̠ɴ]

Noun

蜜(み)柑(かん) or 蜜柑(ミカン) • (mikan) 

1. a satsuma tree, a mikan tree: a particular variety of mandarin orange, Citrus unshiu (fruit)
2. a satsuma (fruit), a mikan: a particular variety of mandarin orange, Citrus unshiu (fruit)
3. citrus fruit in general

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ミカン.

Descendants

• → Jeju: 미깡 (mikkang)

See also

• オレンジ (orenji): an orange (specifically Citrus sinensis)

Korean

Hanja in this term
蜜	柑

Noun

蜜柑 • (milgam) (hangeul 밀감)

1. Hanja form^? of 밀감.