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Pinyin:
  
gèn

Wade–Giles:
  
ken4

Jyutping:
  
gan3

Bopomofo:
  
ㄍㄣˋ

Cantonese Yale:
  
gan3

Radical 138

Hiragana:
  
ゴン, コン gon, konうしとら ushitora

Radical 138, a Chinese character meaning "stillness" or "stopping" is 1 of 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 6 strokes. In Taoist Ba gua cosmology, 艮 is the seventh of eight trigrams.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are just five characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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