谷
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grain; corn
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 谷 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 穀
- Common rank
- #741
- Unicode
- U+8C37
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Formation & memory
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Words with 谷
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山谷市 | The Valley, capital of Anguilla (a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean) | |
| 斯瓦特谷地 | Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier | |
| 马尔谷 | Mark; St Mark the evangelist; less common variant of 馬克|马克[Ma3 ke4] preferred by the Catho… | |
| 平谷区 | Pinggu, a district of Beijing | |
| 谷城县 | Gucheng, a county in Xiangyang City 襄陽市|襄阳市[Xiang1 yang2 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 打谷机 | threshing machine | |
| 阳谷县 | Yanggu, a county in Liaocheng City 聊城市[Liao2 cheng2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 四体不勤，五谷不分 | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
| 哈巴谷书 | Book of Habakkuk | |
| 打谷场 | threshing floor | |
| 全谷物 | whole grain | |
| 空谷足音 | (lit.) the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom); (fig.) sth hard to come by; st… | |
| 太谷区 | Taigu, a district of Jinzhong City 晉中市|晋中市[Jin4 zhong1 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 谷神星 | Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G… | |
| 科罗拉多大峡谷 | the Grand Canyon (Colorado) | |
| 谷子 | millet; (ACG) collectible merch (loanword from "goods", via Japanese "guzzu") | |
| 布谷鸟 | cuckoo (Cercococcyx spp.); same as 杜鵑鳥|杜鹃鸟[du4 juan1 niao3] | |
| 山谷 | valley; ravine | |
| 谷地 | valley | |
| 日比谷公园 | Hibiya Park in central Tokyo |
Sound family
These characters use 谷 as their sound component — compare how they read.