丘墟

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Chinese

mound; hill; Confucius
mound; hill; Confucius; given name
 
old burial grounds
trad. (丘墟)
simp. #(丘墟)
alternative forms 丘虛丘虚
邱墟

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (29) (29)
Final () (136) (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter khjuw khjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰɨu/ /kʰɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰiu/ /kʰiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰiəu/ /kʰiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰuw/ /kʰɨə̆/
Li
Rong
/kʰiu/ /kʰiɔ/
Wang
Li
/kʰĭəu/ /kʰĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰi̯ə̯u/ /kʰi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hau1 heoi1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qiū
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjuw › ‹ khjo ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷʰə/ /*C.qʰ(r)a/
English hill, mound hill, mound; abandoned city

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 10523 5255
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷɯ/ /*kʰa/
Notes

Noun

丘墟

  1. (literary) wasteland; ruins
  2. (literary) grave; tomb

Adjective

丘墟

  1. (literary) ruined; dilapidated; desolate