丘

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

1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №293

• 𠰋, 坵, 㚱, 岴, 拞, 㳋, 𬮾, 𪯫, 𪲀, 𣧭, 𥙂, 𪽽, 𥅔, 䂡, 𥿤, 𮎈, 蚯, 𡲌, 𧣜, 𧦺, 𧲰, 𧻁, 䟬, 𨈬, 𫒒, 𬰘, 𩚨, 駈, 𩨼, 𪖛
• 𪟘, 邱, 𣢥, 屔, 𫠴, 𮨆, 𣉠, 𫘶, 𩿨, 𠇯, 𡘄, 𡶦, 𢇹, 茊, 𤵢, 𠤢, 𡙅, 𥬨, 𧟬, 虗, 𩬡, 𦦛, 乒, 乓, 兵, 𠔊, 𡊣, 岳, 𠬿, 𨚬

Wikisource

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

Historical forms of the character 丘
Shang	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
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 Small seal script s05951 s05952 Transcribed ancient scripts L11667 L11668 L11669 L11670 L11671 L11672 L11673 L11674 L11675 L11676 L11677 L11678 L11679 L11680 L11665 L11666
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 (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

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 *r/g-wa (“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).

丘

1. mound; hill

   山丘  ―  shānqiū  ―  hill

   沙丘  ―  shāqiū  ―  dune

2. grave
3. to place a coffin in a temporary shelter pending burial
4. (dialectal) Classifier for fields: plot
5. (obsolete) ruins
6. (obsolete) empty
7. a surname

   丘成桐 [Cantonese]  ―  jau¹ sing⁴ tung⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  Shing-Tung Yau (mathematician)

See 邱 (qiū).

• (hills): 山 (shān)

Since Song dynasty, this character may be read as 某 (mǒu) to prevent mentioning name of Confucius.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: おか (oka, 丘, Jōyō)

• 丘(きゅう)上(じょう) (kyūjō)
• 丘(きゅう)疹(しん) (kyūshin)
• 丘(おか)辺(べ) (okabe)
• 丘(きゅう)陵(りょう) (kyūryō)

• 㐀

From Middle Chinese 丘 (MC khjuw). Recorded as Middle Korean 구 (kwu) (Yale: kwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 丘 (eumhun 언덕 구 (eondeok gu))

1. Hanja form^? of 구 (“small hill”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Kun: ふぁーい (fāi, 丘)

Cognate with Japanese 丘(おか) (oka).

• IPA^(key): /ɸaːi/

丘(ふぁーい) (fāi) 

1. hill

丘: Hán Việt readings: khiêu, khâu, khưu
丘: Nôm readings: khâu, kheo, khưu

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