艱

jiān

Radical: 艮 pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

艱 decomposes into the following components:

堇 艮

Semantic component: 艮; phonetic component: 堇.

Related characters (radical 艮)

Characters that share the radical 艮.

艮 良

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