Radical 138

艮
Radical 138 (U+2F89)
艮 (U+826E) "stopping, stillness"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gèn
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄣˋ
Wade–Giles:	ken4
Cantonese Yale:	gan3
Jyutping:	gan3
Japanese Kana:	ゴン gon / コン kon (on'yomi) うしとら ushitora (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	간 gan
Names
Japanese name(s):	艮旁/こんづくり/ごんづくり kondzukuri/gondzukuri 艮/ごん/うしとら gon/ushitora 根旁/ねづくり nedzukuri
Hangul:	괘이름 gwae ireum
Stroke order animation

Radical 138 or radical stopping (艮部) meaning "stopping" or "stillness" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. In Taoist Bagua cosmology, 艮 is the seventh of eight trigrams.

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

艮 is also the 146th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

艮

Ideogrammic compound 目 ("eye") + 人 ("person"); compare 見 ("see"); unrelated to 良; unrelated to left part of 即 which is 皀.

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

良

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	艮
+1	良
+2	艰SC (=艱)
+11	艱

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/艮

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+826E