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
Radical 150 (U+2F95)
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

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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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