Qiū

surname

A place  on a hill  also provides the pronunciation

Components

SoundMeaning component
qiū hill
Meaning component
hill, place

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰʷɯ
Unicodekiou

說文解字

地名。从邑丘聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica