surname Qu

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(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe

trunk canal

(open, uncovered) water channel; canal

underground water channel; covered ditch; culvert

canal

rivers and canals; waterway

irrigation channel

Lingqu, canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安[Xing1 an1], Guangxi, built in 214 BC to link the Yangtze 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1] to the Pearl River 珠江[Zhu1 jiang1]

Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet); name of several historical figures

stone channel (e.g. drain)

Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang

Xia Jingqu (1705-1787), Qing novelist, author of monumental novel 野叟曝言[Ye3 sou3 Pu4 yan2] Humble Words of a Rustic Elder

drainage

irrigation channel

Zhengguo canal, a 150 km long irrigation canal in Shaanxi built in 264 BC