溝 — Chinese character
溝
gōu
ditch, drain, gutter, narrow waterway
- Pinyin
- gōu
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 氵 冓
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 冓
- Simplified
- 沟
- Japanese
- 溝 as a kanji
溝 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 8 · Zhuangzi 3
- Analects 8.21
- Analects 14.18
- Art of War 6.11
- Mencius 1B.12
- Mencius 2B.4
- Mencius 3A.3
- Mencius 3B.1
- Mencius 4B.18
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.