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 | ||
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
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
editStrokes | Characters |
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+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
editThe radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Literature
edit- 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.
External links
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