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
- —排球volleyball
- —割球blastomere
- —芽球gemmule; blast (cell)
- —嗅球olfactory bulb; bulbus olfactorius
- —球趣interest in baseball
- —白球white ball (baseball, golf ball, etc.)
- —鉄球iron ball
- —球陽official history of the Ryukyu Kingdom (compiled between 1743 and 1745); Kyūyō (poetic name for the Ryukyu Islands)
- —単球monocyte
- —球児baseball-playing teenager; high-school baseball player
- —小球small ball; globule; spherule; pellet
- —触球tag out; tag
- —氷球ice hockey
- —闘球rugby
- —球質characteristics of a (thrown) ball (light, heavy, etc.)
- —塁球softball
- —鋼球steel ball; bearing ball
- —蹄球bulb (of an animal's hoof)
- —羽球badminton
- —綿球cotton ball; swab