Pre-Level 1

Meaning

Kanji 艮

good radical (no. 138)

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

Stroke Order
Kontrol animasi urutan goresan

Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
うしとら
Onyomi 音読み
コンゴン
Nanori 名乗り
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Jōyō
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JLPT
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Frequency
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Strokes
6
Radical
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Components
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Kanji Kentei
Pre-Level 1
Similar Kanji
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Related vocabulary

Showing 3 common entries

Showing 3 of 4 entries that include this kanji.

gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)

艮下艮上

ごんかごんしょう

one of the 64 trigrams

儒艮

じゅごん

dugong (Dugong dugon)

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

は北東の方角を表す字だ。

This character represents the northeast direction.

昔の暦ではが方位の名として使われた。

In old calendars, this character was used as the name of a direction.

には止まるという意味もある。

This character also has the meaning of stopping.

彼はのようにその場で動きを止めた。

He stopped moving right there.

辞書ではを易の卦にも関係する字として載せている。

The dictionary also lists this character as related to a trigram in the I Ching.