穀

See also: 谷 and 殻

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 𣪊

Han character

穀 (radical 115 禾+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土木竹弓水 (GDHNE), four-corner 4794₇, composition ⿰⿱⿳士冖一禾殳)

1. corn, grain, cereal
2. lucky

See also

• 殻

References

• KangXi: page 858, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25221
• Dae Jaweon: page 1283, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2164, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7A40

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Cantonese

Hanzi

穀 (simplified 谷, Jyutping guk1, Yale guk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

穀

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こく (koku)
• Kun: たなつもつ (tanatsumotsu)

Compounds

• 穀草 (こくそう, kokusō): cereal; grain
• 穀類 (こくるい, kokurui): cereal; grain
• 穀物 (こくもつ, kokumotsu): cereal; grain

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Korean

Hanja

穀 (gok, gu) (hangeul [[곡, 구]], revised gok, gu, McCune-Reischauer kok, ku, Yale kok, kwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

穀 (simplified 谷, Pinyin gǔ (gu3), Wade-Giles ku³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

穀 (cốc)