qiū
hill
Pictograph of two hills.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷʰə | khjuw | qiū | hill, mound |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.7642% of movies
2365th most common character in movies
1929th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+4E18 |
Shuowen | “丘,土之高也,非人所為也。从北,从一。一,地也。人居在丘南,故从北。中邦之居在崐崘東南。一曰四方高中央下為丘。象形。,古文从土。” |
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