毬

See also: 球

毬 U+6BEC, 毬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BEC ← 毫 [U+6BEB] CJK Unified Ideographs 毭 → [U+6BED]

Translingual

Han character

毬 (Kangxi radical 82, 毛+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹山戈十水 (HUIJE), four-corner 2371₃, composition ⿺毛求)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 593, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16837
• Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1998, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6BEC

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 毬
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (求) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
救	*kus
求	*ɡu
球	*ɡu
逑	*ɡu
賕	*ɡu
蛷	*ɡu
莍	*ɡu
殏	*ɡu
梂	*ɡu
俅	*ɡu
脙	*ɡu, *qʰu
絿	*ɡu
銶	*ɡu
毬	*ɡu
捄	*ɡu, *ko
觩	*ɡu

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡu) : semantic 毛 (“hair”) + phonetic 求 (OC *ɡu)

Etymology 1

trad.		毬
simp.		球*

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiú (qiu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiû / khiû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cióu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiu²
    • Yale: chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
    • Palladius: цю (cju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiû
    • Tâi-lô: kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiuu
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiu²³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiû
    • Tâi-lô: khiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qiuu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiu²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰiu²⁴/

Definitions

毬

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Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 毬 – see 球 (“fine jade; percussion instrument made of jade; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 球).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Compounds

• 拍結毬／拍结球 (phah-kat-kiû) (Min Nan)
• 擊毬／击球
• 柳花毬／柳花球
• 毬果／球果
• 毬蘭／球兰 (qiúlán)
• 氣毬／气球
• 水晶毬／水晶球
• 火毬／火球
• 燈毬／灯球
• 皮燈毬／皮灯球
• 絨毬／绒球
• 袞毬／衮球
• 踢毬／踢球
• 香毬／香球
• 驢糞毬／驴粪球

 

Japanese

Kanji

毬

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. ball
2. bur; husk; cone

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: まり (mari, 毬); いが (iga, 毬)

Etymology 1

Noun

毬(まり) • (mari) 

1. a ball; (especially) a ball used to play kemari
   • 1947, Toyoshima Yoshio, Kin no me gin no me:

     危(あぶ)ない!と太(た)郎(ろう)が思(おも)ったとたん、少(しょう)年(ねん)は毬(まり)から転(ころ)がり落(お)ち、毬(まり)は見(けん)物(ぶつ)人(にん)のひざにはねかえりました。

     Abunai! to Tarō ga omotta totan, shōnen wa mari kara korogari ochi, mari wa kenbutsunin no hiza ni hanekaerimashita.

     Just as Taro was thinking “Watch out!”, the young man with the ball tumbled down and the ball ricocheted into the knees of the spectators.

Etymology 2

Noun

毬(いが) or 毬(イガ) • (iga) 

1. (botany, forestry) burr (seed pod of a chestnut or similar tree)
   • 2005, Mihara Yoshiaki, Kyūjūsai yamamori no yuigon: mori no kenkō to hito no kenkō [Testament of a 90 year old forest ranger: Health of forests and health of people]‎^[1], page 11:

     秋(あき)になると、その自(じ)生(せい)樹(き)に大(おお)きな栗(くり)の毬(いが)がなり始(はじ)めたのです。

     Aki ni naru to, sono jisei ki ni ōkina kuri no iga ga nari hajimeta no desu.

     In autumn, the large, native chestnuts have just begun to put out seed burrs.

Korean

Hanja

毬 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

1. ball, anything round, sphere

Vietnamese

Han character

毬: Hán Nôm readings: cầu

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References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999