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
- —ア式蹴球association football; soccer
- —球状星団globular cluster
- —地球質量earth mass (astronomical unit of mass)
- —尿道球腺bulbourethral gland; Cowper's gland
- —骨髄芽球myeloblast
- —阻塞気球barrage balloon
- —ナツメ球night-light bulb; jujube bulb
- —高校球児high-school baseball player
- —地球観測earth observation (satellite, platform, etc.)
- —観測気球weather balloon; sounding balloon; observation balloon; espionage balloon; spy balloon; trial balloon
- —肺炎球菌pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
- —化膿球菌pyococcus; coccoid bacterium that forms pus
- —多形核球polymorphonuclear leukocyte; polymorphonuclear leucocyte
- —乳酸球菌streptococcus; lactococcus
- —琉球王国Ryukyu Kingdom
- —琉球料理Ryukyuan food; Ryukyuan cuisine
- —巨赤芽球megaloblast
- —琉球処分Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)
- —琉球使節Ryukyuan mission to Edo
- —琉球出兵Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)