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谷

gǔ

valley, ravine

Depicts an opening (口) between two mountain streams.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts two mountain streams.

口 iconic component

口  Iconic component

kǒu

  

mouth

Depicts an opening between two mountain streams.

Evolution

谷 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
谷 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
谷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
谷 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
谷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谷 (穀) 

gǔ

corn, grain, cereal; lucky; grain; corn

谷  

Gǔ

surname Gu

谷  

gǔ

valley

Most common words with 谷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谷

grain

峡谷

canyon

山谷

valley

曼谷

Bangkok, capital of Thailand

低谷

valley

Component uses

Meaning component in 5 characters (0 verified)

谿 豁 峪 郤 㕡

Sound component in 7 characters (3 verified)

欲 俗 浴 裕 峪 鵒 鹆

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qˤok

kuwk

gǔ

valley


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 14.3040% of movies

1543rd most common character in movies

1095th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

穀

Unicode

U+8C37

Shuowen

“谷，泉出通川為谷。从水半見，出於口。”


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