谷
valley
7 strokes. Taught in grade 2. Newspaper frequency rank 508.
Readings
- たに (kun reading): 谷 (たに) valley; 谷間 (たにま) valley
- コク (on reading): 渓谷 (けいこく) valley (with a river running through it); 峡谷 (きょうこく) gorge
- きわまる (kun reading): 進退これ谷まる (しんたいこれきわまる) to be driven into a corner
Components
Kanji containing 谷
- 容 contain
- 欲 longing
- 裕 abundant
- 浴 bathe
- 俗 vulgar
- 卻 instead
- 峪 ravine
- 郤 crevice
- 逧 ravine
- 硲 ravine
- 谺 tree spirit
- 谿 valley
- 豁 empty
Words using 谷
- 谷 (たに) valley
- 谷間 (たにま) valley
- 大谷派 (おおたには) Otani sect (of Shin Buddhism)
- 山あり谷あり (やまありたにあり) (having) ups and downs
- 谷底 (たにぞこ) valley floor
- 渓谷 (けいこく) valley (with a river running through it)
- 峡谷 (きょうこく) gorge
- 龍谷大学 (りゅうこくだいがく) Ryukoku University
- 河谷 (かこく) river valley
- 圏谷 (けんこく) cirque
- 進退これ谷まる (しんたいこれきわまる) to be driven into a corner
- 渋谷 (しぶや) Shibuya City (special ward of Tokyo)
- 谷地 (やち) marsh land
- 日比谷線 (ひびやせん) Hibiya Line
- 熊谷組 (くまがいぐみ) Kumagai Gumi
- 渋谷系 (しぶやけい) Shibuya-kei (pop music microgenre of the mid-late 1990s)
70 words in all.