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Kanji Detail for 球 - "ball, sphere, globe"

球

  • Meaning

    球 means "ball, sphere, globe."

    1. Ball - A spherical object.

    2. Sphere - A round, three-dimensional shape.

    3. Globe - The earth; a round body.

  • Words using 球

    • 地球 ちきゅう Listen Earth; the globe
    • 野球 やきゅう Listen baseball
    • 四球 しきゅう Listen base on balls; walk; pass
    • 投球 とうきゅう Listen pitching; throwing a ball; bowling (in cricket)
    • 球団 きゅうだん Listen baseball team
    • 球場 きゅうじょう Listen baseball stadium; ballpark
    • 速球 そっきゅう Listen fastball
    • 制球 せいきゅう Listen (pitcher's) control

  • Four-character idioms with 球

    • 一球入魂 いっきゅうにゅうこん Listen putting one's heart and soul into each pitch
    • 全力投球 ぜんりょくとうきゅう Listen using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out

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    • Verified meaning: ball, sphere, globe
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read きゅう, たま, まり)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 球

    Given names 球(きゅう)Listen 球(たま)Listen 球(まり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    ball; sphere

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    ball, sphere, globe; round

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    ball used for playing games (variant of 球[qiu2])

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    ball, globe, sphere; round

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A jade chime stone. 鳴球 appears in (Book of Documents). | A solid sphere. As in 地球 (earth), 皮球 (leather ball).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kyuu(キュウ) キュウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tama(たま) たま

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    玉 王 (tama・tamahen・o・ohen)

  • Related Keywords

    ball sphere globe orb round spherical earth circular pellet three-dimensional spheroid

Sentences including 球

  • He is crazy about baseball.

  • Let's play baseball after school.

  • The sun is so distant from the earth.

  • What do you play baseball for?

  • His baseball life ended then.

  • I belong to the baseball team.

  • Are you fond of baseball?

  • He proposed that we should play baseball.

  • We are liable to go to the ball game tomorrow.

  • It was a really exciting baseball game.

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