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艮

艮 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 八卦の一つ。卦の形は画像:Gon.pngであり、初爻・第2爻は陰、第3爻は陽で構成される。
  2. 六十四卦の一つ。卦の形は20pxであり、艮下艮上（ごんかごんしょう）で構成される。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

会意。「目」+「人」、後を振り返る人を象る。「そむく」を意味する漢語｛很｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

northeast (Oriental zodiac), stopping, good radical (no. 138)

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コン
  • ゴン
Kun (native)
  • うしとら
Other languages
  • 拼音gen4
  • 拼音gen3
  • 한글gan
  • Hán-ViệtCấn

Basics

Strokes
6 strokes
Radical
艮(ねづくり)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+826E

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿸𢀳⿱丿乀

Words using this kanji

  • 艮ごん（うしとら）北東の方角。丑（うし）と寅（とら）の間であることから。gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)
  • 艮為山ごんいざんgen (hexagram 52 of the I Ching: mountain, keeping still)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(3 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
4-6-1
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7773.2
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0a6.7
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3884