The Chinese Radical: 丘




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Meaning
mound, hillock    丘

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
visitor, guest, object (in grammar)
bīn
Top: roof 宀, bottom: soldier 兵 (At the hill 丘 there are eight 八 soldiers.)
(At compulsory billeting) Under your roof a soldier is accommodated as your: guest.
HSK 4
"Ping", table tennis (ping-pong)
pīng
丿

Just as a soldier 兵 (there are eight 八 soldiers at the hill 丘) stands alternately on one leg or the other, so it is with table tennis: Or phonetically 乒(pīng) 乓 (pāng) as a double sound, as in table tennis.
HSK 4
bang (onomatopoeia)
pāng
丿

Like a soldier 兵 who stands on one leg or the other when playing table tennis. Or phonetically 乒 (pīng) 乓 (pāng) as a double sound, like in table tennis.
HSK 5
soldiers, an army, military
bīng
Top: hill 丘 (An axe 斤 in the ground 一 as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill.), below: eight 八
At the hill are eight soldiers.
HSK 6
high mountain, highest mountain peak, wife's parents
yuè
Top: hill 丘 (An axe 斤 in the ground 一 as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill), below: mountain 山
Hills on the mountains make a high mountain.
HSK 6
mound, hillock, grave
qiū
Top: axe 斤, below: ground/earth 一
An axe in the ground as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill.
no HSK
mound, hill, grave
qiū
Left: mound, hill 丘 (An axe 斤 in the ground 一 as a burial object in the [burial] mound/hill), right: village⻏
(As a fortification?) The hill at the village is: a mound.

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