字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Structures & Home
艮 boundary, limit, tough
こん kon
6 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 13
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound會意
A person looking back to introduce the concept of disobedience and/or limit. Similar but unrelated to 見.
Built from 目 “eye” + 人 “person”
Source: Wiktionary, 艮 (rev. 92496381), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Know your limits! This radical represents the physical and conceptual boundaries that define our experience. When you see it, think of staying within your current scope, the toughness required to endure, and the clear "divisions" that separate different parts of the world. It brings a sense of stability, firm limits, and resilient strength to any character it joins.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates boundaries and limits, staying in place, physical toughness and persistence, or the concept of things being "good" (when one stays within proper boundaries).
What it grows into
- 良goodリョウ · よい
艮 becomes 良
Possibly depicts corridors and a room, in which case it would be the original form of 廊. Unrelated to 食, 艮 and 即.
Pictogram · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with 艮 as its radical
All 2 kanji