谷

See also: 穀

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 谷
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
4. Kangxi radical #150, ⾕ ‎(“valley”).

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/谷
• 俗 浴 容 欲 卻 裕

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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Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		谷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔ, lù, yù (gu³, lu⁴, yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ, ㄌㄨˋ, ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): guk¹, juk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ku³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
    • IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
    • IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: guk¹, juk⁶
    • Yale: gūk, yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: guk⁷, juk⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊk̚⁵/, /jʊk̚²/

Noun

谷

1. valley
2. gorge
3. ravine

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 谷 – see 穀. (This character, 谷, is the simplified form of 穀.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

谷

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. valley

Readings

• Goon: こく (koku)
• Kan’on: こく (koku)
• On (unclassified): よく (yoku)
• Kun: たに (tani), きわまる (kiwamaru)
• Nanori: ひろ (hiro), や (ya)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
谷
たに Grade: 2
kun'yomi

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• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) たに​ [tàníꜜ] (Odaka - [2])
• IPA^(key): [tã̠ni]

Noun

谷 ‎(hiragana たに, romaji tani)

1. a valley (elongated depression between hills or mountains)

Proper noun

谷 ‎(hiragana たに, romaji Tani)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

谷 (cốc, góc, hốc, tân)

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