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U+79CB, 秋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79CB

[U+79CA]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+79CC]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 115, +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木火 (HDF), four-corner 29980, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 850, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24940
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1273, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2595, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+79CB
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Chinese

Glyph origin

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The oracle bone forms and bronze inscriptions show the pictogram (象形) of a cricket or a locust, sometimes with a fire glyph underneath. In its later form, became a Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰɯw): semantic (grain) + abbreviated phonetic 𤒅. Often thought of as an Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (grain) + (fire); after harvesting the grain, the fields are burned to kill locusts and their eggs.

Etymology 1

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Unclear.

Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs Old Chinese *tshiu < Proto-Chinese *C-nh(i)u and proposes its cognacy to either:

  • (OC *(n)hiu, “to reap, harvest, gather”); or
  • (OC *tsut, “to finish, end, die”), as vegetation dies in autumn; additionally in Zuozhuan, this word's referent was winter's dead vegetation.

Alternatively, Sagart (2023b) relates (OC *tsʰiw) to (OC *[dz]iw, “to collect, bring together”), whose Old Chinese reconstruction should possibly be amended to *m-tsʰiw or *m-tsiw.

Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. harvest season
       màiqiū   harvest season for wheat
  2. autumn; fall
       shēnqiū   late autumn
  3. (literary) year
    萬代万代   qiānqiūwàndài   the ages to come
    [MSC, trad.]
    [MSC, simp.]
    yī rì bù jiàn, rú gé sān qiū [Pinyin]
    a single day apart seems like three years
  4. period; time
    多事之   duōshìzhīqiū   troubled period
  5. autumn crops
  6. a surname
       Qiū Jǐn   Qiu Jin (Chinese revolutionary)
See also
Seasons in Mandarin · 四季 (sìjì, four seasons) (layout · text) · category
(chūn, spring) (xià, summer) (qiū, fall; autumn) (dōng, winter)

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“swing”).
(This character is the simplified form of ).
Notes:

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