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谷

JLPT N2 SL2 7 strokes Frequency: #508

Meanings

Valley

Radicals

谷

Decomposition

⿱八⿱人口

Etymology

Ideographic: Water flowing 人 from a spring 口 through a valley 八

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 dot right-to-left

3 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

4 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 vertical bottom-to-top

6 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コク koku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

きわ kiwa

たに tani

Words Using This Kanji

68 words total

Other (20 words)

圏谷けんこく

cirque

谷偏たにへん

kanji "valley" radical at left

谷空木たにうつぎ

Weigela hortensis (species of deciduous shrub in the honeysuckle family)

大谷派おおたには

Otani sect (of Shin Buddhism)

九谷焼くたにやき

Kutani ware (style of Japanese porcelain)

大谷渡おおたにわたり

Asplenium antiquum (species of spleenwort)

不気味の谷ぶきみのたに

uncanny valley (hypothesis about humanoid robots)

小谷渡こたにわたり

hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)

river valley

Himeya ware

fault valley

Oya tuff stone

ravine wind

mountain-valley winds

恐れ入谷の鬼子母神おそれいりやのきしぼじん

sorry

谷氷河たにひょうが

valley glacier

万尋の谷ばんじんのたに

bottomless ravine

山あり谷ありやまありたにあり

(having) ups and downs

進退これ谷まるしんたいこれきわまる

to be driven into a corner

谷底平野こくていへいや

valley plain

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