The 艮 family
艮 · gèn · gěn blunt · ㄍㄣˋ — one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing mountain
Know 艮 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 很、跟、根、恨、狠、痕. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 很hěn · ㄏㄣˇ部首 彳 雙人旁 · step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60)very; quite64%
- 跟gēn · ㄍㄣ部首 足 · footwith; to follow; heel77%
- 根gēn · ㄍㄣ部首 木 · treeroot; basis77%
- 恨hèn · ㄏㄣˋ部首 忄 豎心旁 · heartto hate; to regret64%
- 狠hěn · ㄏㄣˇ部首 犭 犬部旁 · (literary) dogruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute64%
- 痕hén · ㄏㄣˊ部首 疒 病字頭 · sickscar; traces64%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 艮 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 艮 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 68%.
Words this family builds
- 根本
- 根據
- 跟上
- 痕跡
- 摩根
- 仇恨
- 狠狠
- 憎恨
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