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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)

池谷・関彗星いけやせきすいせい

Comet Ikeya-Seki

谷筋たにすじ

channel (of a stream, valley, etc.)

渋谷系しぶやけい

Shibuya-kei (pop music microgenre of the mid-late 1990s)

渋谷しぶや

Shibuya City (special ward of Tokyo)

気圧の谷きあつのたに

low pressure trough

長谷川派はせがわは

Hasegawa school of Japanese painting (Muromachi-early Edo period)

谷渡りたにわたり

traveling from valley to valley

谷折りたにおり

valley fold (origami)

死の谷しのたに

valley of death (barrier between product development and commercialization stages)

横谷おうこく

transverse valley

谷山志村予想たにやましむらよそう

Taniyama-Shimura conjecture (former name of the modularity theorem)

山谷さんこく

mountains and valleys

谷落としたにおとし

tani otoshi (judo)

岩谷産業いわたにさんぎょう

Iwatani International Corporation

熊谷守一美術館くまがいもりかずびじゅつかん

Kumagai Morikazu Museum

三谷商事みたにしょうじ

Mitani Corporation

四谷怪談よつやかいだん

Yotsuyakaidan

世田谷区立世田谷美術館せたがやくりつせたがやびじゅつかん

Setagaya Art Museum

世田谷区立世田谷美術館せたがやくりつせたがやびじゅつかん

Setagaya Art Museum

世田谷線せたがやせん

Setagaya Line

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