丠

See also: 丘, and 㐀

丠 U+4E20, 丠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E20 ← 丟 [U+4E1F] CJK Unified Ideographs 両 → [U+4E21]

Translingual

Han character

丠 (Kangxi radical 1, 一+5, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中心一 (LPM), four-corner 1210₁, composition ⿱北一)

Derived characters

• 𨛆 𧆳 𡷒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 78, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 17, character 11
• Unihan data for U+4E20

Chinese

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
丘	*kʰʷɯ
邱	*kʰʷɯ
蚯	*kʰʷɯ
丠	*kʰʷɯ

Characters in the same phonetic series (丘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 丠 – see 丘 (“mound; hill; grave; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 丘).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 丠 – see 冀 (“to look forward to; to hope for; to wish; Hebei, a province of China”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 冀).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

丠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. a hill; original form of 丘
2. empty
3. great mound

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: おか (oka, 丠)^{←をか (woka, 丠, historical)}、むなしい (munashii, 丠しい)

“Great mound” mentioned in Jiyun:

• Go-on: は (ha)
• Kan-on: は (ha)

Korean

Hanja

丠 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)

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