Definitions
(noun)
hill; mound
(noun)
grave
Etymology
Pictograph of two hills.
About
The character "丘" originated as a pictograph representing two rising peaks or mounds of earth, a form which conceptually stabilized into its now familiar structure of two vertical lines beside a longer central one. Its core meaning has consistently referred to a small hill or an earthen mound, a concept derived directly from its visual representation. Over time, this fundamental sense of a human-sized earth form allowed for a natural semantic extension, whereby "丘" also came to signify a grave mound or tomb, linking the physical shape of a hillock to its funerary function. The character's structure has remained largely consistent throughout its history, and it is one of the few common characters that retained its traditional form without undergoing graphical simplification in the modern era, preserving its ancient pictorial essence within its minimal strokes.
Example Sentences Hide
这个小山丘很漂亮。
沙丘在沙漠中移动。
丘陵地带适合种茶。
画家笔下的丘壑很有气势。
比丘在寺庙里静静祈祷。
这片田野中有几座古丘墓。
我们爬上了那个长满绿草的丘。
由于风蚀作用，沙丘的形态不断变化。