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Translation

gǔ = gu + Ø3: grain / corn

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) conducts an experiment in the space station's living room (Ø3). She shows Neanderthal Man (人) three things: a mandarin (口), popcorn (谷), and an eight-ball (八), and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight-ball is a little crunchy.

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All translations for 谷

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谷 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
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Characters with 谷 as component

custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular
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to hold / to contain / to allow / to tolerate / appearance / look / countenance
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open; clear; liberal-minded; generous / to exempt; to remit
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to play Chinese finger-guessing game
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opening / stake all / sacrifice / crack / slit
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to wish for / to desire / variant of 慾|欲[yu4]
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but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though
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Words with 谷

canyon / gill / ravine
valley / ravine
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
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
great valley / Grand Canyon of Colorado River
great rift valley
Taigu county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
Taigu county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
the Valley, capital of Anguilla
valley / ravine
to boost / to propel
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]

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