qiú
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 respectful and submissive in manner (classical, in 俅俅)

Examples

Dú lóng zú shì Yúnnán xīběi de yí gè mínzú.
The Derung people are an ethnic group in northwest Yunnan.

Tips

history
is not used alone. Its classical sense survives in the reduplication ('respectful-looking', describing a ceremonial cap in the 《诗经》). It is also the old transcription character in , an old name for the Derung people. The person radical gives the human-bearing image; supplies the sound.
register
Archaic and literary. You meet only in classical text and old ethnonyms, not in modern speech.

Components

radical
dānrénpáng
person (left-side form of 人)
is the left-side form of (person). In it marks a human bearing or manner, here a respectful, submissive air.
phonetic
qiú
phonetic element
supplies the reading for directly, with matching tone; it is the same phonetic seen in and .

Stroke Order

qiú