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Mythic Mandarin

足球 (zú qiú): meaning and stroke order

足球 (zú qiú) means soccer; football, a soccer ball; a football (个).

足球

Simplified
足球
Traditional
足球 (same form)
Pinyin
zú qiú

Stroke order of 足球

足

  • jù excessive
  • zú (bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

球

  • qiú ball used for playing games (variant of 球[qiu2])
  • qiú ball; sphere
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 毬

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 足球

  1. zú qiú
    • soccer; football
    • a soccer ball; a football (CL:個|个[ge4])

Radicals of the characters

足
Radical 足 (Kangxi radical 157) · 7 strokes · 口 on top, 龰 below
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.

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).