(qiú) - ball, sphere in Mandarin
qiúTraditional: 球
Translation
ball, sphere
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the jade radical 王 on the left, since fine round objects were once carved from jade, and 求 (qiú) supplying the sound. It came to mean any ball or sphere.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 王 (jade) + 求 (qiú, phonetic)
Stroke order
球
Examples
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The children are playing ball.
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The ball rolled to the side of the road.
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He threw a ball to me.
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This ball was newly bought.
圆。
The Earth is round.
球 (qiú) means ball or sphere. It appears in the names of many sports such as 足球, football, and 篮球, basketball.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 球.
Used in
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