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Translation

qiu̅ = qi + ou1: mound / hillock / grave / classifier for fields / surname Qiu

Mnemonic

In front of the outhouse (ou1), the Queen of Hearts (qi) set up a mound (丘) for her relatives. She also put a gate in front of it where the two pillars are a steel beam (工) and a dinosaur bone (丨) respectively, and the horizontal beam is a banana (丿).

All translations for 丘

mound / hillock / grave / classifier for fields / surname Qiu
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Comments

I probably could have solved the perspective issues with additional prompting, but this one is just so hilarious and memorable that I decided to keep it this way.

Matthias, 6 months ago

丘 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
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vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
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radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
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work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
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Characters with 丘 as component

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soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[ge4]
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wife's parents and paternal uncles
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high mountain / highest peak of a mountain ridge
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old variant of 茲|兹[zi1]
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Words with 丘

variant of 邱吉爾|邱吉尔[Qiu1 ji2 er3]
hypothalamus (anatomy)
hills and valleys / remote, secluded area
Shing-Tung Yau (1949-), Chinese-American mathematician, Fields medalist in 1982
Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
Churkin (name) / Vitaly I. Churkin (1952-), Russian diplomat, Ambassador to UN from 2006
Qiu county in Hebei
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
(bird species of China) Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
Renqiu, county-level city in Cangzhou 滄州|沧州[Cang1 zhou1], Hebei
hilly (geography)
jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.
(anatomy) hypothalamus (Tw)
soldier (from the two components of the 兵 character) (derog.)
Qiubei 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 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan
Qiubei 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 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan

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