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Chinese surname · rank 372

裘

裘 is read as qiú.

Pinyin

qiú

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 裘

Basic meaning

fur garments

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Zhou official-title tradition, 1046-256 BCE

Place: Zhou craft-office Qiu tradition; Wei-state Qiu fief in northern Henan / northeast Henan-Hebei border tradition; Bohai commandery prestige geography; later Zhejiang-Jiangsu concentration

Origin note

裘 is a surname with several concrete source-backed layers. One layer is occupational: Zhou craft texts mention workers responsible for fur garments, and later surname sources explain descendants of such Qiu officials as taking the office name as a surname. A second layer is place-based: a Wei-state noble or official held a fief called Qiu, placed in northern Henan or the Henan-Hebei border region, and descendants used the fief name. A third layer is a changed-surname tradition from 仇: later accounts connect part of the surname to Song noble Qiu Mu and his descendants, with Qiu Zhong or later descendants changing the written form to 裘. Some references also mention 求-to-裘 changes. The page keeps these traditions separate from the ordinary fur garment meaning.

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