(qiū)

HSK 7-95 strokes

surname Qiu

Stroke order animation

Character information

Pinyin
qiū
Meaning
surname Qiu
Strokes
5
HSK level
HSK 7-9
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where comes from and how its parts fit together.

Pictograph⿱斤一

Two hills

A drawing of the thing it names.

Made of

Parts are arranged top to bottom.

How to write step by step

5 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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  5. 5

Words with

Common words using — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

qiūlíng
HSK 7-9

hills

Open 丘陵 page →
qiū

soldier (from the two components of the 兵 character) (derog.)

Open 丘八 page →
qiūběi

Qiubei county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山…

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qiū

hills and valleys; remote, secluded area

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jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.

Open 一丘之貉 page →

Qiubei, a county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 文山壮族苗族自治州, Yunnan

Open 丘北县 page →

variant of 邱吉尔

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Shing-Tung Yau (1949-), Chinese-American mathematician, Fields medalist in 1982

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