Radical 138
| 艮 | |
|---|---|
| Radical 138 (U+2F89) | |
| 艮 (U+826E) "stillness" | |
| Pinyin: | gèn |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄣˋ |
| Wade–Giles: | ken4 |
| Jyutping: | gan3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | gan3 |
| Hiragana: |
ゴン, コン gon, kon うしとら ushitora |
| Kanji: | 艮 kon |
| Hangul: | 괘이름 gwae ireum |
| Sino-Korean: | 간 gan |
| Stroke order animation | |
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Radical 138, a Chinese character meaning "stillness" or "stopping" 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

seal script character
| strokes | character |
|---|---|
| without additional strokes | 艮 |
| 1 additional stroke | 良 |
| 2 additional strokes | 艰 |
| 3 additional strokes | 𦫋 |
| 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" (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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