球 (qiú)
ball/ball game
How 球 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 王 — jade
- Traditional
- 球
- Simplified
- 球 (unchanged)
Components
- 王 jade
- 𠂇 left hand
- 丶 dot
- 氺 water
Common words using 球
- 全球 quánqiú
- entire; total; global
- 地球 dìqiú
- the Earth; planet; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 星球 xīngqiú
- celestial body (e.g. planet, satellite etc); heavenly body
- 籃球 lánqiú
- basketball; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- 網球 wǎngqiú
- tennis; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 足球 zúqiú
- soccer ball; a football; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 乒乓球 pīngpāngqiú
- table tennis; ping-pong; ping pong
- 保齡球 bǎolíngqiú
- bowling (balls)
- 傳球 chuánqiú
- pass (in soccer); to feed (ball)
- 全球通 quánqiútōng
- Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) (telecommunications)
- 台球 táiqiú
- billiards
- 小球 xiǎoqiú
- sports such as ping pong and badminton that use small balls; see also 大球[da4 qiu2]
球 in a sentence
下午我們一起去打籃球吧。
Xiàwǔ wǒmen yìqǐ qù dǎ lánqiú ba.
“Let's go play basketball together this afternoon.”
How common is 球?
球 is the 627th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80.6% of all running text.
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