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Radical 138

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艮
← 137
Radical 138 (U+2F89)
139 →
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

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艮

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

良

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Derived characters

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

Literature

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  • 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.
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