Radical 150
Radical 150 or radical valley (谷部) meaning "valley" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
| 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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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 Oracle bone script character
 Bronze script character Bronze script character
 Large seal script character Large seal script character
 Small 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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