Ideographic: The time of year when farmers would burn 禾 crops 火Radical:

meaning for qiū:

  • - autumn
  • - fall
  • - harvest time
  • - see 秋千 autumn
  • - Classifiers: 个 Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
  • - Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)spring and autumn
  • - four seasons
  • - year
  • - a person's age
  • - annals (used in book titles)autumn
  • - fallthe Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month