谷

See also: 穀

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 水 (“water”) + 口 (“mouth”)

Water comes from a valley.

Han character

谷 (radical 150 谷+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 金人口 (COR), four-corner 8060₈)

1. valley, gorge, ravine
2. grain (after 穀 is simplified to this character)
3. a surname

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/谷
• 俗 浴 容 欲 卻

References

• KangXi: page 1189, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36182
• Dae Jaweon: page 1652, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3902, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8C37

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Cantonese

Hanzi

谷 (traditional 穀, Jyutping guk1, juk6, Yale guk1, yuk6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

谷 (POJ kwuk, Guangdong kuk⁷; kuk⁸ [Meixian], kwuk⁷ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim gug5)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

谷

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. valley

Readings

• On: こく (koku), よく (yoku)
• Kun: たに (tani), きわまる (kiwamaru)
• Nanori: や (ya)

Noun

谷 (hiragana たに, romaji tani)

1. valley

Proper noun

谷 (hiragana たに, romaji Tani)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

谷 (hangeul 곡, 욕 (gok, yok), revised gok, yok, McCune-Reischauer kok, yok, Yale kok, yok)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 峽谷 (峡谷)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

谷 (TLPA kok (kok⁴))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

谷 (cốc, góc, hốc, tân)