Radical 138

← 137 Radical 138 (U+2F89) 139 →
(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.

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

Derived characters

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

Literature

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