丘
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mound; hillock; grave; classifier for fields
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 一 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 丘
- Common rank
- #1,235
- Unicode
- U+4E18
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Formation & memory
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Words with 丘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 克拉夫丘克 | Leonid Kravchuk (1934-), first post-communist president of Ukraine 1991-1994 | |
| 安丘市 | Anqiu, a county-level city in Weifang City 濰坊市|潍坊市[Wei2 fang1 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 丘尔金 | Churkin (name); Vitaly I. Churkin (1952-), Russian diplomat, Ambassador to UN from 2006 | |
| 丘北县 | Qiubei, a county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[Wen2… | |
| 内丘县 | Neiqiu, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市[Xing2 tai2 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 丘比特 | Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty | |
| 商丘市 | Shangqiu, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3] | |
| 下视丘 | (anatomy) hypothalamus (Tw) | |
| 比丘尼 | Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni") | |
| 丘吉尔 | variant of 邱吉爾|邱吉尔[Qiu1 ji2 er3] | |
| 下丘脑 | hypothalamus (anatomy) | |
| 灵丘县 | Lingqiu, a county in Datong City 大同市[Da4 tong2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 虎丘区 | Huqiu, a district of Suzhou City 蘇州市|苏州市[Su1 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 任丘市 | Renqiu, a county-level city in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 丘县 | Qiu county in Hebei | |
| 山丘 | hill | |
| 小丘 | hill; knoll | |
| 安丘 | see 安丘市[An1 qiu1 Shi4] | |
| 封丘县 | Fengqiu, a county in Xinxiang City 新鄉市|新乡市[Xin1 xiang1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 马丘比丘 | Machu Picchu |
Sound family
These characters use 丘 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丘 sound part | mound, hill; surname | |
| 蚯 | earthworm (1) |