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It specifically refers to one of the eight trigrams used in the I Ching (Book of Changes).

It is a compound ideographcombining 目 (meaning "eye") and 匕, which is an inverted form of the character for "person" (人). The character depicts a person turning their eyes backward.
艮 is one of the eight trigrams (八卦 bāguà) represented by ☶ and symbolizes the northeast direction, a hand, a mountain, and the concept of stopping or ceasing.

Only 5 characters use this radical as their main radical.
While it is not often used as a radical by itself, it frequently appears combined with other radicals in characters such as 根 (root) and 墾 (to cultivate land).

#130 — meat, flesh

#131 — minister, subject, one who serves

#132 — self, oneself

#133 — to reach, to arrive

#134 — mortar

#135 — tongue

#136 — to be opposed to, to be contrary to, to deviate from, to be disordered, to go astray

#137 — boat, ship

#138 — one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦

#139 — colour, hue

#140 — grass, herb

#141 — tiger, pattern of tiger fur

#142 — insect, bug

#143 — blood

#144 — to go, to walk, to perform, rank, lineage (항렬)

#145 — clothes, clothing, garment

#146 — to cover, something that covers an object

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艮

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