Word and Radical Components of 丘陵

The Chinese word 丘陵 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
丘陵	qiūlíng	1. n. continuous stretch of hills
		丘陵起伏 - a chain of undulating hills
		丘陵地帶 - hilly land

丘陵 ⇨ 丘 + 陵

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
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
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