Translingual

Stroke order

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

谷

1. valley
2. gorge
3. ravine

Etymology 2

Japanese

Kanji

(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

• 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​.

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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