球

Translingual

Han character

球 (radical 96 玉+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈十水 (MGIJE), four-corner 1313₂)

1. ball, sphere, globe, orb
2. round

References

• KangXi: page 732, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21011
• Dae Jaweon: page 1144, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1114, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7403

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Cantonese

Hanzi

球 (Yale kau4)

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Japanese

Kanji

球 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū), ぐ (gu)
• Kun: たま (tama)

Noun

球 (hiragana きゅう, romaji kyū)
球 (hiragana たま, romaji tama)

1. ball; sphere; globe; orb

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Korean

Hanja

球 (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

球 (pinyin qiú (qiu2), Wade-Giles ch'iu²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

球 (cầu)