grain; valley; corn

Character data

Radical ⽲ (115.10)
Strokes 15
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

穀 gǔ
  1. 1. grain
  2. 2. valley
  3. 3. corn
  4. 4. surname Gu

Words containing 穀

Word Meaning
all grains; all crops
bumper grain harvest; abundant harvest of all food crops
whole grain
corn; (dialect) maize; also written bāo gǔ
never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
local monastery
same as yì yǐ
cuckoo
to thresh
threshing floor
threshing machine
to winnow
Tonyukuk (died c. 724 AD)
trough of a wave; lowest level; (fig.) low point
all the grains; every kind of cereal crop
food grain; cereal
rice crops
barn
millet
abbr. for gǔ liáng zhuàn, Guliang Annals
Guliang Commentary on Spring and Autumn
Google, Internet company and search engine
husk of grain; grain and chaff
glutamic acid (Glu), an amino acid
monosodium glutamate (MSG) (E621)
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