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球

qiú

ball

Phonosemantic compound. 𤣩 represents the meaning and 求 represents the sound.

Components
𤣩 meaning component

𤣩  Meaning component

yù

  

jade

𤣩 is a component form of 玉.

求 sound component

求  Sound component

qiú

  

seek

Evolution

球 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
球 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
球 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
球 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
球 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

球  

qiú

ball, sphere, globe; round; ball; sphere; globe; CL:個|个[gè]; ball game; match; CL:場|场[chǎng]

Most common words with 球
Freq.
Word
Meaning

球

ball

全球

entire

地球

the earth

球员

sports club member

球队

sports team (basketball, soccer, football etc)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)[u]

gjuw

qiú

'ball'?


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 65.5454% of movies

307th most common character in movies

628th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7403

Shuowen

“球，玉聲也。从玉，求聲。璆，球或从翏。”


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