Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

穀: cereals, grain

JLPT N114 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

禾 carries the meaning · 殻 and 殳 give the sound

14 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

コクkoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 穀物こくもつgrain, cereal
  • 穀類こくるいgrains
  • 穀倉こくそうgranary
  • 五穀ごこくthe 5 grains
  • 脱穀機だっこくきgrain threshing machine
  • 米穀べいこくrice

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“The harvest is ready! Imagine a field of golden rice bowing its head in the autumn breeze.”
More in the 禾 grain story
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
禾

Also built on grain (禾)

All 32
殳

Also built on lance shaft (殳)

All 15

Also read コク

10 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 谷 · traditional, as in Japanese · gǔ

Japan keeps the traditional form 穀; mainland China simplifies it to 谷.

Simplified
谷 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
穀 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin gǔ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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