Radical 150
| 谷 | ||
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| 谷 (U+8C37) "valley" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gǔ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ku3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | guk1 | |
| Jyutping: | guk1, juk6 | |
| Japanese Kana: | コク koku (on'yomi) たに tani (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 곡 gok | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 谷/たに tani | |
| Hangul: | 골 gol | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 150 or radical valley (谷部) meaning "valley" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 54 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
谷 is also the 162nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
The character 谷 is also used as a Chinese surname.
In Simplified Chinese, 谷 is used as the simplified form of 穀 (grain).
Evolution[]
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters[]
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 谷 |
| +3 | 谸 |
| +4 | 谹 谺 谻 |
| +6 | 谼 |
| +7 | 谽 |
| +8 | 谾 |
| +10 | 谿 (=溪 -> 水) 豀 (=溪 -> 水) 豁 |
| +11 | 豂 |
| +12 | 豃 |
| +15 | 豄 |
| +16 | 豅 |
Literature[]
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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