Qiu is an East Asian surname ( Chinese : 丘/邱 ; pinyin : Qiū ; Wade–Giles : Ch'iu ; Jyutping : Jau1 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Khu ). This surname is common in Mainland China, and is also one of the most influential surnames in Taiwan , as well as the Sichuan and Fujian provinces in the South China region. As well as being a surname, the character 邱 also means "mound, dune, or hill". A less common surname is 秋 , pronounced the same in Mandarin but differently in Cantonese and Hokkien ( pinyin : Qiū ; Jyutping : Cau1 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Chhiu ).
5-455: 丘/邱 also appears in Korea, where they may be transliterated as: The surname also appears in the Philippines from immigrants from the South of China. It was anglicized as: 丘/邱 ranks 151st in the Hundred Family Surnames , and is very common in Luoyang , Henan or Wuxing , Zhejiang . 秋 is common with Taiwanese aboriginals , but is otherwise rare, ranking 237th. 邱 is a very rare surname in South Korea , with census records noting
10-630: A distribution of less than 2000 with the name. The surname has several historical origins: Hundred Family Surnames The Hundred Family Surnames ( Chinese : 百家姓 ), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing , also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames , is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames . An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dynasty (960–1279). The book lists 507 surnames. Of these, 441 are single-character surnames and 66 are double-character surnames . About 800 names have been derived from
15-453: A number of ordinary villagers. Each text was available in many versions, printed cheaply and available to all since they did not become superseded. When a student had memorized all three, he had a knowledge of roughly 2,000 characters . Since Chinese did not use an alphabet, this was an effective, though time-consuming, way of giving a crash course in character-recognition before going on to understanding texts and writing characters. The work
20-401: Is a rhyming poem in lines of eight characters. The surnames are not listed in order of commonality. According to Song dynasty scholar Wang Mingqing (王明清), the first four surnames listed represent the most important families in the empire at the time: The next four, Zhou 周 , Wu 吳 , Zheng 鄭 , and Wang 王 , were the surnames of the other wives of Qian Chu , the last king of Wuyue. This text
25-600: The original ones. In the dynasties following the Song, the 13th-century Three Character Classic , the Hundred Family Surnames , and the 6th-century Thousand Character Classic came to be known as San Bai Qian (Three, Hundred, Thousand), from the first character in their titles. They served as instructional books for children, becoming the almost universal introductory literary texts for students (almost exclusively boys) from elite backgrounds and even for
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