Jisho

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On reading compounds

  • 鶯谷 【オウコク】 warbler being in a valley, valley in which warblers live, remaining obscure and unsuccessful
  • 鶯遷 【オウセン】 warbler flying from a valley to a tree, finding success in life, passing the palace examination

Kun reading compounds

  • 鶯 【うぐいす】 Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone), Japanese nightingale, greenish brown, beautiful voice, woman with a beautiful voice
  • うぐいす餡 【うぐいすあん】 sweet brownish-green paste made from green peas
  • 高麗鶯 【こうらいうぐいす】 black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
  • 初鴬 【はつうぐいす】 first Japanese bush warbler to chirp this year (i.e. spring)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ying1
Korean:
aeng

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5364 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2940 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
47169 Morohashi
6994 New Nelson (John Haig)
11b10.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-10-11 SKIP code
3232.7 Four corner code
9032.7 Four corner code
1-82-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9daf Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
valley
Parts:
valley
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
508 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 谷底平野 【コクテイヘイヤ】 valley plain
  • 渓谷 【ケイコク】 valley (with a river running through it), gorge, ravine, canyon
  • 盤谷 【バンコク】 Bangkok (Thailand)

Kun reading compounds

  • 谷 【たに】 valley
  • 谷間 【たにま】 valley, ravine, gorge, chasm, cleavage (of breasts), part or place that has been left behind, blind spot, bottom (of society), (economic) trough, gap (in activity, one's work, etc.), lull, opening
  • 死の谷 【しのたに】 valley of death (barrier between product development and commercialization stages)
  • 気圧の谷 【きあつのたに】 low pressure trough
  • 極まる 【きわまる】 to reach an extreme, to reach a limit, to terminate, to come to an end, extremely, to be stuck, to be in a dilemma, to be at a loss, to be decided, to be settled

Readings

Japanese names:
がい、 がえ、 がや、 せ、 たり、 たん、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu3, yu4
Korean:
gog, yog

Spanish

  • valle

Portuguese

  • vale

French

  • vallée
78 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
135 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
122 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
249 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4458 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
528 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
914 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
449 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
653 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
664 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
458 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1714 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2536 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1290 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1758 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
796 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36182 Morohashi
2043 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5730 New Nelson (John Haig)
788 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
851 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
143 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2077 2001 Kanji
2o5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-5 SKIP code
8060.8 Four corner code
1-35-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c37 Unicode hex code