surname Gu

grain; corn

canyon; gill; ravine

Bangkok, capital of Thailand

great valley; Grand Canyon of Colorado River

river valley

cuckoo

valley; trough (as opposed to peaks); fig. low point; lowest ebb; nadir of one's fortunes

(geology) rift valley

valley; gorge

Silicon Valley

deep valley

five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants; all crops; all grains; oats, peas, beans and barley

to boost; to propel

(dialect) corn; maize

low-lying humid terrain

see 太谷區|太谷区[Tai4 gu3 Qu1]

valley; ravine

same as 薏苡[yi4 yi3]

see 平谷區|平谷区[Ping2 gu3 Qu1]

see 府谷縣|府谷县[Fu3 gu3 Xian4]

to thresh

to winnow

see 景谷傣族彝族自治縣|景谷傣族彝族自治县[Jing3 gu3 Dai3 zu2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]

(Tw) Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch post-Impressionist painter; also pr. [Fan2gu3]

gully

trough

trough of a wave; (fig.) low point; lowest level

deep valley; ravine

deep valley

glen

see 甘谷縣|甘谷县[Gan1 gu3 Xian4]

all the grains; every kind of cereal crop

Silicon Valley

cereal; food grain

grain not fully grown

unhusked rice; paddy

to winnow grain

variant of 包穀|包谷[bao1 gu3]

(Taoism) to abstain from eating cereals; to fast; also pr. [pi4gu3]

see 陽谷縣|阳谷县[Yang2 gu3 Xian4]

ravine

Tonyukuk (died c. 724 AD)

Zeng Xiaogu (1873-1937), actor and pioneer of Chinese drama in New Culture style

lowest point; nadir

Mark; St Mark the evangelist; less common variant of 馬克|马克[Ma3 ke4] preferred by the Catholic Church

(idiom) all over the place; in every nook and cranny; packed to the rafters

receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded

no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma; trapped; in an impossible situation