球 — ball, sphere

たま球 ball

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes sports

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.

Meanings

ball
sphere

word

たま 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

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 球(きゅう) 団(だん) kyuudan baseball team 卓(たっ) 球(きゅう) takkyuu table tennis

Appears in idioms

一球入魂四字熟語

one, ball, enter, soul

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おう王 king

もとむ求 request

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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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