渠
Meanings
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- 1.surname Qu
- 1.(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:条[tiáo])
- 2.(literary) big; great
- 3.(dialect) he; she; him; her
- 4.(old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
- 1.how can it be that?
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Wiktionary
- 1.ditch; canal; drain; man-made channel (Classifier: 條／条 m c)
- 2.big; huge
- 3.a surname
- 4.third-person pronoun; he; she; it
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡa): semantic 水 (“water”) + abbreviated phonetic 榘 (OC *kʷaʔ). ; “ditch; canal; drain”
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Related words
渠道 irrigation ditch灵渠 Lingqu, canal in Xing'an county 兴安[Xīng ān], Guangxi, built in 214 BC to link the Yangtze 长江[Cháng Jiāng] to the Pearl River 珠江[Zhū jiāng]沟渠 channel渠县 Qu County or Quxian, a county in Dazhou City 达州市[Dá zhōu Shì], Sichuan河渠 rivers and canals石渠 stone channel (e.g. drain)渠魁 rebel leader; ringleader; bandit chieftain灌渠 irrigation channel石渠 Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)水渠 canal暗渠 underground water channel干渠 trunk canal