Kanji Library
Radicals › #150 谷

谷 — the “valley” radical

Radical #150 7 strokes

The valley radical. 1 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.

Kanji using the 谷 radical (1)

valley
← 言 speech豆 bean →

Radicals (部首, bushu) are the shared building blocks of kanji, used to sort them in every dictionary. Learn the common ones and new kanji stop looking random.