Kanji1 / 11
球 kanji
ball, sphere
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
キュウ
Kun readings
たま
Words with 球
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —閃光電球flash bulb
- —軟式庭球softball tennis
- —軟式野球Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball
- —投球動作windup
- —野球選手baseball player; ballplayer
- —地球環境global environment
- —白熱電球light bulb; incandescent light bulb
- —全力投球using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out; throwing a ball as hard as one can
- —球茎甘藍kohlrabi
- —琉球列島Ryukyu Islands
- —琉球諸島Ryukyu Islands; southern chain of the Nansei Islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture
- —琉球音階Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)
- —連鎖球菌streptococcus
- —眼球振盪nystagmus
- —赤芽球症erythroblastosis (abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood)
- —天球座標celestial coordinates
- —球状船首bulbous bow (on a ship to reduce drag)
- —糸球体嚢glomerular capsule
- —ビーム球spotlight bulb (e.g. in interior lighting)
- —桿状核球band cell; stab cell