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See also: 良, 民, and ☶

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艮 (Kangxi radical 138, 艮+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 日女 (AV), four-corner 7773₂, composition ⿸⿰𠄌𫜹⿺㇏丿)

1. Kangxi radical #138, ⾉.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/艮
• 退, 䫀(𫖱), 垦, 恳, 食, 峎, 茛, 㡾, 痕, 䦘,(𨸄)
• 佷, 哏, 垠, 很, 恨, 拫, 泿, 狠, 限, 根, 㸧, 珢, 眼, 硍, 裉, 蛝, 詪(𬣳), 豤, 貇, 跟, 銀(银), 鞎, 䬶(𬲷), 齦(龈)

• 退

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

simp. and trad.	艮
alternative forms	𥃩 㫔

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 目 (“eye”) + 人 (“person”) — a person looking back (Ji Xusheng, 2004) to introduce the concept of disobedience and/or limit. Similar but unrelated to 見.

艮

1. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing mountains. (☶)
2. a surname

艮

1. (dialectal) 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。 [MSC, trad.]
     他说的话太艮。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā shuō de huà tài gěn. [Pinyin]

     He put it too sharply.

2. (dialectal) tough, chewy

   • 艮蘿蔔不好吃。 [MSC, trad.]
     艮萝卜不好吃。 [MSC, simp.]

     Gěn luóbo bù hǎochī. [Pinyin]

     Tough radishes are not good for eating.

• “艮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “艮”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 75.

艮

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. northeast

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: こん (kon)
• Kan’yō-on: ごん (gon)
• Kun: うしとら (ushitora, 艮)
• Nanori: たかし (takashi)

Kanji in this term
艮
ごん Hyōgai
kan'yōon

艮(ごん) • (gon) 

1. the seventh of the eight trigrams in the I Ching, symbolizing mountains. ☶

   Hypernym: 八卦

   Coordinate terms: 乾, 兌, 離, 震, 巽, 坎, 艮, 坤

2. the fify-second of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching ䷳

   Hypernym: 六十四卦

Kanji in this term
艮
うしとら Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 艮 – see the following entry.

(This term, 艮, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

• 巽(たつみ) (tatsumi, “southeast”)
• 乾(いぬい) (inui, “northwest”)
• 坤(ひつじさる) (hitsujisaru, “southwest”)

艮 (eumhun 괘 이름 간 (gwae ireum gan))

1. hanja form^? of 간 (“one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦”)

艮 (eumhun 그칠 간 (geuchil gan))

1. hanja form^? of 간 (“to stop; to cease”)

艮 (eumhun 은 은 (eun eun))

1. hanja form^? of 은 (“silver”)

艮 (eumhun 끌 흔 (kkeul heun))

1. hanja form^? of 흔 (“to pull; to draw; to drag”)

艮: Hán Nôm readings: cấn, cản, ngắn, nhìn, ngấn, ngẩn, ngổn, ngần

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