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茛

gèn

Character

What 茛 means

1. ranunculus

Words containing 茛

• 毛茛máo gènbuttercup

Characters built on 艮

These share the phonetic component 艮 (gěn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 很hěnvery; quite…
• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
• 跟gēnheel; to follow closely; to go with
• 恨hènto hate; to regret
• 狠hěnruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
• 痕hénscar; traces
• 恳kěnearnest
• 垦kěnto reclaim (land); to cultivate

Sounds the same

Read gèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 艮one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦; ☶; ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast)
• 亘extending all the way across; running all the way through

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gèn correctly.
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