Radical 150
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 150 | uni |
| meaning | valley |
| pny | gǔ |
| bopo | ㄍㄨˇ |
| wade | ku3 |
| jyutping | guk1, juk6 |
| yale | guk1 |
| onyomi | コク koku |
| kunyomi | たに tani |
| jp | 谷/たに tani |
| hang | 골 gol |
| hanja | 곡 gok |
| :: |
|150|uni=8C37 |meaning= valley |pny= gǔ |bopo= ㄍㄨˇ |wade= ku3 |jyutping= guk1, juk6 |yale= guk1 |cn= |onyomi= コク koku |kunyomi= たに tani |jp= 谷/たに tani |hang= 골 gol |hanja= 곡 gok
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
File:谷-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:谷-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:谷-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:谷-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| 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 |
| :: |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.
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