IDENTITY
秋qiūautumn; fall
HSK 1Top 430
CORE MEANING
autumn; fall
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.autumnHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 禾grain radical (hé)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰禾火
- grain
- fires of harvest (old: crickets)
USAGE
Common words
秋天qiūtiānautumn
秋千qiūqiānswing
Graded examples
秋天的树叶是黄色的。Qiūtiān de shùyè shì huángsè de.HSK3
Autumn leaves are yellow.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Grain (禾) ripening by the fire (火) — autumn harvest.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #430
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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