Radical 138
| 艮 | ||
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| 艮 (U+826E) "stillness" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gèn | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄣˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ken4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gan3 | |
| Jyutping: | gan3 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ゴン, コン gon, kon うしとら ushitora | |
| Sino-Korean: | 간 gan | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 艮 kon | |
| Hangul: | 괘이름 gwae ireum | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 138, a Chinese character meaning "stillness" is 1 of 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 6 strokes. In Taoist Ba gua 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.
Characters with Radical 138
| strokes | character |
|---|---|
| without additional strokes | 艮 |
| 1 additional stroke | 良 |
| 2 additional strokes | 艰 |
| 11 additional strokes | 艱 |
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". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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