Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 𥃩 (Alternative form true to the etymology)
• 㫔

Han character

艮 (radical 138 艮+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 日女 (AV), four-corner 7773₂)

1. seventh of eight Ba gua trigrams
2. 52nd hexagram of the I Ching
3. Kangxi radical #138, ⾉ ‎(“stopping”).

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/艮
• 根 痕 狠 恨 垠 銀 限 眼 𡯣 鞎 珢

See also

• 退

References

• KangXi: page 1013, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30596
• Dae Jaweon: page 1472, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3170, character 1
• Unihan data for U+826E

Chinese

Pronunciation

Noun

艮

1. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing mountain (☶)
2. Kangxi radical 138 (stopping)

Pronunciation

Adjective

艮

1. (dialectal Mandarin) blunt; straightforward
   • 這人真艮。 / 这人真艮。  ―  Zhè rén zhēn gěn.  ―  That fellow is really blunt.
   • 他說的話太艮。 / 他说的话太艮。  ―  Tā shuō de huà tài gěn.  ―  He put it too sharply.
2. (dialectal Mandarin) tough, chewy
   • 艮蘿蔔不好吃。 / 艮萝卜不好吃。  ―  Gěn luóbo bù hǎochī.  ―  Tough radishes are not good for eating.

References

• 艮 in CEDICT on MDBG
• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. northeast

Readings

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: こん (kon)
• Kan’yōon: ごん (gon)
• Kun: うしとら (ushitora)

Noun

艮 ‎(hiragana うしとら, romaji ushitora)

1. (obsolete) northeast

Korean

Hanja

艮 • ‎(gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan, Yale kan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: cấn, cản, ngắn, ngăn, ngấn, ngẩn, ngổn, ngần

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