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Chinese symbol for “glen”

狭谷
xiá gǔ
Traditional: 狹谷
glen

The closest CC-CEDICT match for glen is 狭谷 (xiá gǔ), defined as: glen.

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Characters and stroke order

狭 xiá
narrow, limited; narrow-minded
radical 94 ⽝ · 9 strokes
谷 gǔ
valley, gorge, ravine
radical 150 ⾕ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 狭谷.

WordPinyinMeaning
狭窄 (狹窄)xiá zhǎinarrow
狭隘 (狹隘)xiá ài(of a path etc) narrow; (of a living space etc) cramped
狭小 (狹小)xiá xiǎonarrow
狭义 (狹義)xiá yìnarrow sense; restricted sense
狭长 (狹長)xiá chánglong and narrow
心胸狭隘 (心胸狹隘)xīn xiōng xiá àinarrow; petty-minded
河谷hé gǔriver valley
山谷shān gǔvalley; ravine

See also: Japanese symbol for “glen”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.