Chinese Word of the Day

丘陵
qiū líng

hill

Definitions

Chinese > English
丘陵	qiūlíng
1. n. continuous stretch of hills
丘陵起伏 - a chain of undulating hills
丘陵地帶 - hilly land
English > Chinese
hill
1. 名词. 山坡,丘陵
Components
丘	qiū
1. mound; hill
山丘 - hill
沙丘 - dune
2. grave
3. to place a coffin in a temporary shelter pending burial
4. (dialectal)
5. (obsolete) ruins
6. (obsolete) empty
丘成桐 - Shing-Tung Yau (mathematician)
7. usage. See 邱.
8. Variant of 兵
9. Variant of 蚯
兵	bīng
1. weapon
2. army; troops
3. soldier
士兵 - soldier
4. warfare
5. (Chinese chess) pawn; private; soldier (on the red side)
6. (chess) pawn
7. (Cantonese) (short for, zh, 觀音兵)
8. (Philippines Hokkien) police
蚯	qiū
1. Only used in 蚯蚓 (earthworm)
陵	líng
1. mound; hill
2. royal or imperial tomb (generally restricted to the tombs of emperors, empresses and empress dowagers, but also used as an honorific for the tomb of Sun Yat-sen, the first president of China)
3. to go up; to mount; to ascend
(Alternative form 凌, 淩)
4. to surpass; to override
(Alternative form 凌, 淩)
5. to bully and humiliate; to encroach on; to invade
(Alternative form 凌, 淩)
6. to decline; to wane
7. to sharpen; to temper
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