球 — ball, sphere

たま球 ball

たま

U+7403 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #302 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1005 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

ball
sphere

Readings

On'yomi: きゅう kyuu
Kun'yomi: たま tama

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たま・だま tama Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

球(たま) tama ball 決(き) め球(だま) kimedama winning pitch

きゅう kyuu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

地(ち) 球(きゅう) chikyuu earth 野(や) 球(きゅう) yakyuu baseball 球(きゅう) 場(じょう) kyuujou baseball stadium 電(でん) 球(きゅう) denkyuu light bulb 投(とう) 球(きゅう) toukyuu pitching プロ野(や) 球(きゅう) puroyakyuu professional baseball 地(ち) 球(きゅう) 上(じょう) chikyuujou on Earth 気(き) 球(きゅう) kikyuu balloon (hot-air, weather, etc.)

Words by frequency and grade

19 words

Each dot is a word containing 球: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 11 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

一球入魂四字熟語

one ball, enter soul

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おう王 king

もとむ求 request

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#96 玉 jade

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たま・だま tama Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

きゅう kyuu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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球 — ball, sphere

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Meanings

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たま ・だま tama Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

きゅう kyuu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

Words by frequency and grade

Appears in idioms

Stroke order

Components

Composed of

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

たま・だま tama Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).