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.
| 艮 | ||
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| 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 | ||
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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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Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 艮 |
| +1 | 良 |
| +2 | 艰SC (=艱) |
| +11 | 艱 |
Literature
edit- 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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