Radical 150


Radical 150 or radical valley meaning "valley" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 54 characters to be found under this radical.
谷 is also the 162nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
The character 谷 is also used as a Chinese surname.
In Simplified Chinese, 谷 is used as the simplified form of 穀.

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.