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丘

丘

丘 U+4E18, 丘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E18
← 丗
[U+4E17] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 丙 →
[U+4E19]
See also: 丠 and 坵

Translingual

Han character

丘 (radical 1 一+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人一 (OM), four-corner 72101, composition ⿱斤一)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 77, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33
  • Dae Jaweon: page 156, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 17, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4E18

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 丘
alt. forms 丠
𠀉
㐀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 丘
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Oracle bone script

j19598

j19599

j19600

j19601

j19602

j19603

j19604

j19605

j19606

j19607

j19608

j19609

j19610

j19611

j19612

j19613

j19614

j19615

j19616

j19618

j19619

j19620

j19621

j19622

j19623
Bronze inscriptions

b12629

b12630

b12631

b12632

b12633
Large seal script

L11667

L11668

L11669

L11670

L11671

L11672

L11673

L11674

L11675

L11676

L11677

L11678

L11679

L11680

L11665

L11666
Small seal script

s05951

s05952
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (丘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
丘 *kʰʷɯ
邱 *kʰʷɯ
蚯 *kʰʷɯ
丠 *kʰʷɯ

Ideogram (指事) – hill. Earlier form closer to 丠, as in 虛 (OC *kʰa, *qʰa). Compare 山.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 丘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去鳩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰuw/
Li
Rong		 /kʰiu/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 丘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷʰə/
English hill, mound

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 丘
Reading # 1/1
No. 10523
Phonetic
component		 丘
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 丘
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰʷɯ/

Definitions

丘

  1. mound; hill
  2. grave
  3. to place a coffin in a temporary shelter pending burial
  4. (dialectal) Classifier for fields: plot

See also

  • (hills): 山 (shān)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

丘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Alternative forms

Noun

丘 ‎(hiragana おか, romaji oka)

  1. hill
    丘 (おか)を下 (くだ)る
    oka o kudaru
    to go down a hill

Usage notes

The most common kanji for this word is 丘.

Korean

Hanja

丘 • ‎(gu)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 구 (revised: gu, McCune-Reischauer: ku)
  • Name (hangeul): 언덕 (revised: eondeok, McCune-Reischauer: ǒndǒk)
  1. hill

References

Vietnamese

Han character

丘 (khâu, kheo, khưu)

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References

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