漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
球: ball, sphere
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
王 carries the meaning · 求 gives the sound
11 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
キュウkyuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 地球ちきゅうthe earth
- 電球でんきゅうlight bulb
- 野球やきゅうbaseball
- 卓球たっきゅうping-pong
- 球場きゅうじょうbaseball stadium
- 球根きゅうこん(plant) bulb
たまtama · kun'yomi · on its own
- 球たまball
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)玉 jade (meaning) + 求 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 球 (rev. 93770846), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A treasure for royalty! While it looks like a "king," the true soul of this radical is "jade."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side球 ball · 王
vs毬 burr · 毛In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qiú
Same form: 球 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 球 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 球 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qiú most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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