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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
(Taoism) to abstain from eating cereals; to fast / also pr. [pi4gu3]
glen
Google, Internet company and search engine
five crops, e.g. millet , soybean , sesame , barley 麥|麦, rice or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
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)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谷* | 谷* | *谷
grain / corn
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谷* | 谷* | *谷
surname Gu
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谷* | 谷* | *谷
valley
unhusked rice / paddy
Fugu County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
(Tw) Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch post-Impressionist painter / also pr. [Fan2gu3]
variant of 谷歌
(geology) rift valley
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
grain not fully grown
Tuyuhun, nomadic people related to the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 / a state in Qinghai in 4th-7th century AD
millet / (ACG) collectible merch (loanword from "goods", via Japanese "guzzu")
valley floor / (fig.) lowest ebb / all-time low
Rift Valley fever (RVF)
Bangkok, capital of Thailand
deep valley
Silicon Valley
cereal / grain
grain chaff
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
river valley
glutamic acid (Glu), an amino acid
lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip
straw
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
ear of grain / gerbe (used on coats of arms)
(dialect) corn; maize
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
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
(idiom) all over the place / in every nook and cranny / packed to the rafters
Taniguchi (Japanese surname)
the Grand Canyon (Colorado)
Mark / St Mark the evangelist / less common variant of 馬克|马克 preferred by the Catholic Church
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
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
to thresh
threshing machine
Gucheng, a county in Xiangyang City 襄陽市|襄阳市, 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
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 (a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean)
Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Hibiya Park in central Tokyo
Tonyukuk (died c. 724 AD)

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