Radical 138 Explained

Uni:826E
Meaning:stopping,stillness
Pny:gèn
Bopo:ㄍㄣˋ
Wade:ken4
Jyutping:gan3
Yale:gan3
Onyomi:ゴン gon / コン kon
Kunyomi:うしとら ushitora
Jp: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
Hang:괘이름 gwae ireum
Hanja:간 gan

Radical 138 or radical stopping meaning "" or "" 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.

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

Derived characters

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

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