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

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large 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

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/谷

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8C37