Radical 99 or radical sweet (甘部) meaning "sweet" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

甘 is also the 101st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

甘 [fr; ja; zh] is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.