gǔ
valley, ravine
Depicts an opening (口) between two mountain streams.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 谷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
grain | ||
canyon | ||
valley | ||
Bangkok, capital of Thailand | ||
valley |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qˤok | kuwk | gǔ | valley |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 14.3040% of movies
1543rd most common character in movies
1095th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8C37 |
Shuowen | “谷,泉出通川為谷。从水半見,出於口。” |
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