艮
gěngèn

blunt

艮 gěn frequency
blunt adjective
straightforward or brusque in speech or manner

他说话太艮了。

tā shuō​huà tài gěn le.

He speaks too bluntly.

chewy onomatopoeia
tough or leathery in texture, making it difficult to chew

这块肉太艮了，嚼不动。

zhèi kuài ròu tài gěn le, jiáo bù dòng.

This meat is too tough to chew.

艮 gèn
trigram proper name
one of the Eight Trigrams (Ba Gua) symbolizing mountain (☶)

艮卦在八卦中代表山，象征着稳重。

gèn guà zài bā​guà zhōng dài​biǎo shān, xiàng​zhēng zhe wěn​zhòng.

The 'Gen' trigram in the Eight Trigrams represents a mountain, symbolizing stability.

northeast noun
ancient Chinese compass point representing the direction of 45° (northeast)

艮位在古代罗盘上代表东北方向。

gèn​wèi zài gǔ​dài luó​pán shàng dài​biǎo dōng​běi fāng​xiàng.

The 'Gen' position on an ancient compass represents the northeast direction.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,564th most common 1.56 per million
Movie subtitles
3,690th most common 1.09 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.52 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.68 per million

Details
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+826E

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)