丘

See also: 丠

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – hills. Earlier form closer to 丠, as in 虛. Compare 山.

Han character

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

1. hill
2. elder
3. empty
4. a name

Coordinate terms

• (hills): 山

Derived characters

• 岳 虗/虛

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

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		丘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiū (qiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau¹
• Min Nan (POJ): khu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'iu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiou
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau¹
    • Yale: yāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khu
    • Tâi-lô: khu
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰu³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (丘, reconstructed)
Character (丘), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 溪 (29) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 去鳩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʰɨu/	/kʰi̯ə̯u/	/kʰiu/	/kʰiu/	/kʰuw/	/kʰĭəu/	/kʰiəu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (丘, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
丘								qiū								‹ khjuw ›								/*[k]ʷʰə/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
丘					10523					丘					之					0					丘					/*kʰʷɯ/

Compounds

• 丘疹 (qiū zhěn)

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Japanese

Kanji

丘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: おか (oka)

Compounds

• 丘上 (きゅうじょう) (kyūjō)
• 丘疹 (きゅうしん) (kyūshin)
• 丘辺 (おかべ) (okabe)
• 丘陵 (きゅうりょう) (kyūryō)

Alternative forms

• 岡
• 壟

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.

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Korean

Hanja

丘 (gu)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 구 (revised: gu, McCune-Reischauer: ku)

• Name (hangeul): 언덕 (revised: eondeok, McCune-Reischauer: ǒndǒk)

1. hill

References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 丘

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Vietnamese

Han character

丘 (khâu, kheo, khưu)

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References

• Nom Foundation