Radical 150

Radical 150 or radical valley (谷部) meaning "valley" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 54 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

谷 is also the 162nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

The character 谷 is also used as a Chinese surname.

In Simplified Chinese, 谷 is used as the simplified form of 穀 (grain).

Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji