球 (qiú): meaning and stroke order
球 (qiú) means ball, sphere, globe, 个, ball game, match, 场, ball used for playing games (variant of 球).
球
- Simplified
- 球
- Traditional
- 球, 毬
- Pinyin
- qiú
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Stroke order of 球
球
- qiú ball used for playing games (variant of 球[qiu2])
- qiú ball; sphere
- 11 strokes
- Traditional form: 毬
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Meaning of 球
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qiú
- ball
- sphere
- globe
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- ball game
- match
- CL:場|场[chang3]
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qiú
Traditional 毬
- ball used for playing games (variant of 球[qiu2])
Radical and structure
- 球
- Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 11 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 求 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 球
- 气球 qì qiú balloon
- 火球 huǒ qiú fireball
- 篮球 lán qiú basketball; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- 地球 dì qiú the earth
- 足球 zú qiú soccer; football; a soccer ball; a football (CL:個|个[ge4])
球 in our stories
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第二天，她把英语课搬到了操场上：投进一个球，就要用英语说一个单词。
dì-èr tiān tā bǎ Yīngyǔ kè bān dào le cāochǎng shàng tóu jìn yí gè qiú jiù yào yòng Yīngyǔ shuō yí gè dāncí
The next day she moved English class to the playground: for each basket you scored, you had to say a word in English.
From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5
Stories using 球
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).