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Keyword
almost good
  • northeast (Oriental zodiac)
  • stopping
  • good radical (no. 138)
Strokes
6
Readings
コン
ゴン
うしとら
Mnemonic
A hiker bares his long legs to the sun: warm, glowing, but a little too red, so the day is almost good.
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Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
艮うしとら
northeast
Noun
艮ごん
gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)
Noun