grain / corn

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
surname Gu

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
valley

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.

谷 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).
eight; 8

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.

Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.

Characters with 谷 as component

to hold / to contain / to allow / to tolerate / appearance / look / countenance

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros prepares some popcorn in the kitchen of the Erechtheion. She is using a food container which she closes with a graduation cap.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a food container.
surname Rong

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a food container.

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros prepares some popcorn in the kitchen of the Erechtheion. She is using a food container which she closes with a graduation cap.
custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just arrived at the space station and in the entrance (Ø2) she sees Susan Saint Bernard (su) hanging out in her web. Rosa brought some popcorn (谷) as a present and asks Susan Saint Bernard whether she wants to watch a movie, which she does. Both of them think "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" (俗), so Rosa climbs up to Susan Saint Bernard in her web and Susan Saint Bernard eats some of Rosa's popcorn.
to wish for / to desire / variant of 慾|欲[yu4]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) suddenly feels a strong desire (欲) and appetite (欲) to eat popcorn (谷). As she opens the secret drawer in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) though she finds her popcorn gone and instead an IOU note (欠).
desire / appetite / passion / lust / greed

= + : Yu the Great (yu) suddenly feels a strong desire (欲) and appetite (欲) to eat popcorn (谷). As she opens the secret drawer in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) though she finds her popcorn gone and instead an IOU note (欠).
abundant

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is doing very well recently due to the abundant (裕) supplies which arrived at the space station. In the bathroom (Ø4) she is having a good time eating popcorn (谷) while wearing a royal ermine coat (衤) watching a movie.
bath / to bathe

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is taking a bath (浴) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She just uses bottled spring water (氵), and for special effects she adds a few bags of popcorn (谷) too.
opening / stake all / sacrifice / crack / slit
clear / open / exempt (from) / liberal-minded
open; clear; liberal-minded; generous / to exempt; to remit
to play Chinese finger-guessing game

Words with 谷

valley / trough (as opposed to peaks) / fig. low point / lowest ebb / nadir of one's fortunes
five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
abundant harvest of all food crops / bumper grain harvest
Gucheng county in Xiangfan 襄樊[Xiang1 fan2], Hubei
Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC)
(dialect) maize / corn / also written 苞穀|苞谷[bao1 gu3]
Tuyuhun, nomadic people related to the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑[Xian1 bei1] / a state in Qinghai in 4th-7th century AD
never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
temple dedicated to the local tutelary god 土地神[tu3 di4 shen2] and the god of cereals
low-lying humid terrain
to boost / to propel

Sentences with 谷

谷 currently does not appear in any sentence.