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素秋

Su Qiu
sù qiū
Purity and simplicity · Autumn: harvest, clear air, full ripeness
纯洁质朴,本真素雅 · 秋天,收获与清明
82.3Name score
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What each character carries 逐字小传

Not a dictionary entry: what the character has meant in Chinese names, with the original line it comes from. Every quotation below is matched character-for-character against a versioned corpus shipped with this site. Where a page names a character's origin, that line is our own paraphrase of the standard dictionaries — it is not a quotation, and it carries no book title for that reason.

秋qiū · B
tier B

秋季;收成之时。

Autumn — harvest, and the turn toward cold.

1 处原典 · 1 部典籍 · 全部可核

秋日胜春朝 Arguing with the season

自古逢秋悲寂寥,我言秋日胜春朝。

Since ancient times people grieve over autumn's emptiness; I say the autumn day beats a spring morning.

全唐诗 · 劉禹錫《秋詞二首 一》 · our translation
Liu Yuxi reverses the convention: autumn beats spring. A name takes the clear, high version, not the sad one. 刘禹锡翻案:别人悲秋,他说秋天比春天好。名字用「秋」,取的是这一层——清、高、不悲。
秋日清秋秋之秋白素秋
In a name

Clear and high rather than melancholy.

「秋」是清高,不是悲凉。

引文校验:1/1 条在语料库中逐字命中(论语 · 孟子 · 大学 · 中庸 · 诗经 · 楚辞 · 全唐诗)。 没有可靠原典的字,我们宁可写「没有」。

Character by character 逐字拆开看

A Chinese name is not two decorative symbols. For every character: what it means, which of the five elements it belongs to, how many strokes it takes to write, and how often it actually appears in 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

素 su
Element 木 · 10 strokes
Purity and simplicity
纯洁质朴,本真素雅
Source《楚辞·九章·涉江》

How it sounds 怎么念

Mandarin is tonal: the same letters said on a different pitch are a different word. The line below is the pitch you actually travel while saying the name.

sùT4 · qiūT1
sùqiū
Tonessù falling, qiū high and flat
If you don't speak Chinese
  • qiū — q has no English equivalent — close to 'ch', but with the tongue flat

Is it a real name? 有多真

We checked it against a corpus of 1,142,000 real Chinese names — this is not a combination invented for the page.

The pair 「秋」 appears in 203 real names
The corpus describes how many people are actually called this. It is never used to judge whether a name is good.

How this score is built 评分怎么来的

Five dimensions, each scored independently. Every bar below is a real computed value — the same rule set that generated the candidate list, not a separate "premium" model.

Meaning & imagery19.9/30
Sound22.9/25
Naturalness18.5/20
Name + surname11.0/15
Writing10.0/10

How people will actually call you 别人会怎么叫你

A Chinese name is almost never used in full. In daily life it gets a prefix, a suffix, or is cut to the given name alone — and which one you get tells you how close the person thinks they are to you.

素秋Full name. Documents, a first introduction, anyone who is not yet a friend.
小素 / 老素Surname with a size prefix — 小 (little) for someone younger or junior, 老 (old) for a colleague who is senior. This is how a Chinese office usually separates two people with the same surname.
素哥 / 素姐Surname + ‘brother’/‘sister’. Warm without being intimate — a shopkeeper, a neighbour, or a colleague a few years older than you.
秋Given name on its own. Family and close friends. An elder using just this is affectionate, not curt.

Patterns, not rules: what you are called depends on your age, the relationship, and the region. In the south you will also hear 阿 + given name between friends.

FAQ 常见问题

How do I say 素秋?
sù qiū. Tones: sù falling, qiū high and flat.
What does it mean?
素 — Purity and simplicity; 秋 — Autumn: harvest, clear air, full ripeness
Is it a real, usable name?
The pair "秋" appears in 203 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.
Read together

Purity and simplicity · autumn — taken as one scene rather than three separate definitions.

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