丘
Meanings
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- 1.surname Qiu
- 1.hillock; mound (variant of 丘[qiū])
- 1.mound
- 2.hillock
- 3.grave
- 4.classifier for fields
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Wiktionary
- 1.mound; hill
- 2.grave
- 3.to place a coffin in a temporary shelter pending burial
- 4.Classifier for fields: plot
- 5.ruins
- 6.empty
- 7.a surname
- 8.only used in 蚯蚓 (qiūyǐn, “earthworm”)
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事) – hill. Earlier form closer to 丠, as in 虛 (OC *kʰa, *qʰa). Compare 山. Unrelated to 兵 and 斤. Wang (1982) relates this word to 墟 (xū) "ruin-mound". However, Schuessler (2007) disagrees. Schuessler considers two homophones 丘, "hill, mound" and 丘 "village, district" to be the same word as settlements were often built on elevated grounds (for a parallel see 京 (jīng)) and traces this word's etymology to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rwəʔ (“village”); within Sinitic, 丘 (OC *kʰʷɯ) is cognate with 里 (OC *rɯʔ) "village" and 街 (OC *kreː, *kreː) "road crossing, street"; outsides Sinitic, cognate with Mizo khua (“village”), Lai khûa (“village, cosmos”), and Burmese ရွာ (rwa, “village”) (STEDT).
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