谷

谷 (radical 150, 谷+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 金人口 (COR), four-corner 8060₈, composition ⿳八人口)

1. Kangxi radical #150, ⾕.

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

• 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

Historical forms of the character 谷
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) — valley (口) in between two mountains.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river; gorge”). Cognate with Tibetan ལྗོངས (ljongs), Tibetan ཀླུང (klung) and Tibetan ལུང་པ (lung pa).

谷

1. valley; gorge; ravine
2. mountain stream
3. (figuratively) difficult position; predicament
4. A surname​.

谷

1. Only used in 吐谷渾／吐谷浑 (tǔyùhún, “Tuyuhun: name of an ancient nomadic people in northwestern China”).

谷

1. Only used in 谷蠡 (“title for Xiongnu officials”).

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. valley
2. lowland, plain

From Middle Chinese 谷 (MC kuk̚, “valley, gorge”):

• Go-on: こく (koku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: こく (koku, Jōyō)
• Kun: たに (tani, 谷, Jōyō); きわまる (kiwamaru, 谷まる)^{←きはまる (kifamaru, historical)}; や (ya, 谷); やつ (yatsu, 谷)
• Nanori: ひろ (hiro)

From Middle Chinese 谷 (MC jɨok̚), as in 吐谷渾 (Toyokukon, “Tuyuhun”):

• Go-on: よく (yoku)
• Kan-on: よく (yoku)

From Middle Chinese 谷 (MC luk̚), as in 谷蠡 (Rokuri):

• Go-on: ろく (roku)
• Kan-on: ろく (roku)

From Old Japanese.

• 渓, 谿

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) たに​ [tàníꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠ɲ̟i]

谷 (hiragana たに, rōmaji tani)

1. a valley (elongated depression between hills or mountains)
2. a trough (low portion of a wave cycle)
3. an intersection of two receding roof slopes

谷 (hiragana たに, rōmaji Tani)

1. a surname

Possibly from Ainu [Term?].

• 谷津

谷 (hiragana やつ, rōmaji yatsu)

1. a low-lying wetland
2. a valley

Possibly a shift from yatsu above.

谷 (hiragana や, rōmaji ya)

1. a valley

Variant shift from yatsu above.

• 谷地, 野地

谷 (hiragana やち, rōmaji yachi)

1. (regional) Same as やつ (yatsu) above

Another variant shift from yatsu above.

• 谷戸

谷 (hiragana やと, rōmaji yato)

1. Same as やつ (yatsu) above

• 迫

谷 (hiragana さこ, rōmaji sako)

1. (regional, especially Kansai) a small valley

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

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谷 (cốc, góc, hốc)

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