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谷

Valley
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingコク
Kun readingたに
JLPT level: N2JōyōGrade 2Level 5

Meanings

  1. valleyRtK
  1. ravine
  2. gorge
  3. canyon

Radicals and components

Radical谷valley
Components
How it's built
谷
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Mnemonic (RtK)

ⓘ

eight (八) · umbrella · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 851

Compound words

渋谷しぶや
Shibuya City (special ward of Tokyo); Shibuya
峡谷きょうこく
gorge; ravine; canyon; glen
渓谷けいこく
valley (with a river running through it); gorge; ravine; canyon
谷間たにま
valley; ravine; gorge; chasm; cleavage (of breasts)
谷川たにがわ
mountain stream
谷底たにぞこ
valley floor; bottom of a gorge; bottom of a ravine
谷蟆たにぐく
Japanese toad (Bufo japonicus)
盤谷バンコク
Bangkok (Thailand)
曼谷バンコク
Bangkok (Thailand)
溪谷けいこく
valley (with a river running through it)
澁谷しぶや
Shibuya City (special ward of Tokyo)
蟀谷こめかみ
temple (on side of head)
谿谷けいこく
valley (with a river running through it)
渋谷系しぶやけい
Shibuya-kei (pop microgenre)
大谷渡おおたにわたり
Asplenium antiquum (species of spleenwort)
谷あいたにま
valley
千仭の谷せんじんのたに
bottomless ravine
段谷産業だんたにさんぎょう
Dantani Corporation
長谷川派はせがわは
Hasegawa school of Japanese painting (Muromachi-early Edo period)
万仞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
池谷・関彗星いけやせきすいせい
Comet Ikeya-Seki

Additional Examples

彼は部下と馬を引き連れ雪山を越え暑い谷へといった。
He led his men and horses over snowy mountains and down into hot valleys.tatoeba
彼は渋谷に買い物に行くと私に言いました。
He mentioned to me that he would go shopping in Shibuya.tatoeba
彼は下の方の谷を見下ろした。
He looked down at the valley below.tatoeba
彼の目は谷間の湖上をずっとさまよった。
His eyes roamed over the lake in the valley.tatoeba

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Valley. Water (八) running down between slopes to the mouth 口 of a gorge.

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