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valley / ravine
HSK 6
canyon / gill / ravine
HSK 7-9
valley / trough (as opposed to peaks) / fig. low point / lowest ebb / nadir of one's fortunes
HSK 7-9
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  *谷* | 谷* | *谷
grain / corn
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  *谷* | 谷* | *谷
surname Gu
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valley
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)
unhusked rice / paddy
(Tw) Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch post-Impressionist painter / also pr. [Fan2gu3]
(Taoism) to abstain from eating cereals; to fast / also pr. [pi4gu3]
Silicon Valley
variant of 谷歌
river valley
grain not fully grown
millet / (ACG) collectible merch (loanword from "goods", via Japanese "guzzu")
glutamic acid (Glu), an amino acid
Gucheng county in Xiangfan 襄樊, Hubei
Fugu County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
valley floor / (fig.) lowest ebb / all-time low
(geology) rift valley
Bangkok, capital of Thailand
deep valley
cereal / grain
Gangu county in Tianshui 天水, Gansu
(dialect) corn; maize
Pinggu, a district of Beijing
abundant harvest of all food crops / bumper grain harvest
barn
grain (of cereal)
trough
Jinggu Dai and Yi autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱, Yunnan
valley
cuckoo
deep valley / ravine
Guyu or Grain Rain, 6th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th April-4th May
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
five crops, e.g. millet , soybean , sesame , barley 麥|麦, rice or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
straw
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
Tuyuhun, nomadic people related to the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 / a state in Qinghai in 4th-7th century AD
ear of grain / gerbe (used on coats of arms)
never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite
husk (of rice etc); chaff
valley / gorge
lit. the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom) / fig. sth hard to come by; sth wonderful and rare
Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi
glen
(idiom) all over the place / in every nook and cranny / packed to the rafters
Taniguchi (Japanese surname)
valley / ravine
Lugu or Luku Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
same as 薏苡
Lugu or Luku Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
to winnow
cuckoo (Cercococcyx spp.) / same as 杜鵑鳥|杜鹃鸟
deep valley
two-character surname Guliang / abbr. for 穀梁傳|谷梁传, Guliang Annals
low-lying humid terrain
the Grand Canyon (Colorado)
glutamine (Gln), an amino acid
Jinggu Dai and Yi Autonomous County in Pu'er 普洱市, Yunnan
Fugu County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
Yangu county in Liaocheng 聊城, Shandong
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
to thresh
threshing machine
Gucheng county in Xiangfan 襄樊, Hubei
grain-fed
Hasegawa (Japanese surname)
whole grain
East African Rift Valley
ravine
former Pinggu county, now Pinggu rural district in Beijing
all the grains / every kind of cereal crop
monosodium glutamate (MSG) (E621)
storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
Jinggu Dai and Yi autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱, Yunnan
to winnow grain
Zeng Xiaogu (1873-1937), actor and pioneer of Chinese drama in New Culture style
lowest point / nadir
Pinggu, a district of Beijing
the Grand Canyon of the Nujiang river in Tibet and Yunnan
threshing floor
cereal / food grain
grain chaff
Bekaa Valley between Lebanon and Syria
East African Rift Valley
high bank, deep valley (idiom); secluded location
to boost / to propel
Book of Habakkuk
temple dedicated to the local tutelary god 土地神 and the god of cereals
great valley / Grand Canyon of Colorado River
the Valley, capital of Anguilla
Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Hibiya Park in central Tokyo
Tonyukuk (died c. 724 AD)
trough of a wave / (fig.) low point; lowest level
gully
Gangu county in Tianshui 天水, Gansu

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