球 – ball, sphere

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The kanji 球 means ball, sphere. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is キュウ (kyuu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is たま (tama). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 玉 (no. 96).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	キュウ	kyuu
Kun’yomi	たま	tama

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 玉 (Kangxi radical 96). Components: 王・水・丶.

Words using 球

球きゅうsphere球たまball地球ちきゅうEarth電球でんきゅうlight bulb眼球がんきゅうeyeball球根きゅうこん(plant) bulb

Example sentences

汚染が地球を傷つけている。

Pollution is damaging our earth.

Tatoeba #188566

電球が切れた。

The light bulb has burned out.

Tatoeba #124834

Kanji with the same radical

現理環王玉珍琴班珠玩

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.