Radical 138
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 138 | uni |
| 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 |
| :: |
|138|uni=826E |meaning= stopping,stillness |pny= gèn |bopo= ㄍㄣˋ |wade= ken4 |jyutping= gan3 |yale= gan3 |cn= |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 (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
File:艮-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:艮-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:艮-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 艮 |
| +1 | 良 |
| +2 | 艰SC (=艱) |
| +11 | 艱 |
| :: |
Literature
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