Radical 138

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

seal script character
strokescharacter
without additional strokes
1 additional stroke
2 additional strokes
3 additional strokes(左)𦫋亡+(右)艮[“氓”的異體字]
11 additional strokes

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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