Chinese symbol for “mound”
丘
qiū
mound; hillock; grave; classifier for fields
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mound is 丘 (qiū), defined as: mound; hillock; grave; classifier for fields.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “mound”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冢 | zhǒng | mound; burial mound |
| 陵 | líng | mound; tomb |
| 坨 | tuó | mound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits) |
| 土堆 | tǔ duī | mound |
| 土丘 | tǔ qiū | mound; hillock |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 丘.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丘陵 | qiū líng | hills |
| 山丘 | shān qiū | hill |
| 沙丘 | shā qiū | sand dune; sandy hill |
| 比丘 | bǐ qiū | Buddhist monk (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksu") |
| 小丘 | xiǎo qiū | hill; knoll |
| 丘疹 | qiū zhěn | pimple |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mound”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.