艮 · gèn

stopping; trigram Gen

Radical pronunciation

Radical summary

#138

Kangxi

6

Strokes

#104

Frequency

Visual hint

A mountain or rock that stops: a vertical and horizontal forming something hard and immovable.

Suggests stopping, hardness, difficulty, or the 'stop' hexagram in the I Ching.

varies

Trace the radical, simplified, traditional, and variant forms when available.

艮

2 examples

银

yín

silver; money

HSK 2

眼

yǎn

eye; eyelet

HSK 2

Stop/hard radical. Found in 艮 (stop/I Ching hexagram), 银 (silver), 眼 (eye).

An immovable hard rock: the Cấn hexagram in the I Ching is the mountain — as firm as stone.

良: 艮 means stop/hard; 良 has an added stroke on top transforming it to mean good/fine.

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