艮

See also: 良 and 民

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 目 (“eye”) + 匕

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

Derived terms

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

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		艮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gěn (gen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kèn
• Min Nan (POJ): kùn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄣˇ
    • Wade-Giles: kên³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geen
    • IPA ^(key): /kən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan³
    • Yale: gan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐn³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kèn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ken¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kùn
    • Tâi-lô: kùn
    • IPA (Taipei): /kun¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kun²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (艮, reconstructed)
Character (艮), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 痕 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古恨切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kənH/	/kənH/	/kənH/	/kənH/	/kənH/	/kənH/	/kənH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (艮, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
艮					3924					艮					文					1					艮					/*kɯːns/

Adjective

艮

1. (dialect) blunt; straightforward

   • 这人真艮。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Zhè rén zhēn gěn. [Pinyin]

     That fellow is really blunt.

   • 他说的话太艮。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Tā shuō de huà tài gèn. [Pinyin]

     He put it too sharply.

2. (dialect) tough, chewy

   • 艮萝卜不好吃。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Gěn luóbǔ bù hǎochī. [Pinyin]

     Tough radishes are not good for eating.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gèn (gen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: kên⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: genn
    • IPA ^(key): /kən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gan³
    • Yale: gan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gan³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐn³³/

Noun

艮

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

References

• "艮" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-14.
• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

艮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. northeast

Readings

• On: こん (kon)
• Kun: うしとら (ushitora)

Noun

艮 (hiragana うしとら, romaji ushitora)

1. (obsolete) northeast

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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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