秋
Meanings
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- 1.autumn
- 2.fall
- 3.harvest time
- 1.old variant of 秋[qiū]
- 1.used in 秋千[qiū qiān]
- 1.surname Qiu
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- 1.harvest season
- 2.autumn; fall
- 3.year
- 4.period; time
- 5.autumn crops
- 6.a surname
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Etymology
The oracle bone forms and bronze inscriptions show the pictogram (象形) of a cricket or a locust, sometimes with a fire 火 glyph underneath. In its later form, became a Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰɯw): semantic 禾 (“grain”) + abbreviated phonetic 𤒅. Often thought of as an Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 禾 (“grain”) + 火 (“fire”); after harvesting the grain, the fields are burned to kill locusts and their eggs. Unclear. Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs Old Chinese *tshiu < Proto-Chinese *C-nh(i)u and proposes its cognacy to either: * 收 (OC *(n)hiu, “to reap, harvest, gather”); or * 卒 (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 秋 (OC *tsʰiw) to 揫 (OC *[dz]iw, “to collect, bring together”), whose Old Chinese reconstruction should possibly be amended to *m-tsʰiw or *m-tsiw.
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