肉球

Chinese

		meat; flesh	ball; sphere
simp. and trad. (肉球)		肉	球

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ròuqiú

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bah-kiû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ròuqiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ròucióu
    • Wade–Giles: jou⁴-chʻiu²
    • Yale: ròu-chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowchyou
    • Palladius: жоуцю (žoucju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: bah-kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bahkiuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ba(ʔ)⁵ kiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kiu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ kiu²³/

Noun

肉球

a cat's pads

1. pad (cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals)
2. meatball (ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked)
3. (pathology) hemorrhoid

Synonyms

• (meatball):

Dialectal synonyms of 肉丸 (“meatball”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		肉丸, 肉丸子, 肉球
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	肉丸
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	肉圓子
	Liuzhou	肉圓
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	肉圓兒
	Yangzhou	劗肉
Mandarin	Singapore	肉圓
Cantonese	Hong Kong	肉丸
	Dongguan	肉丸
Hakka	Yudu	肉丸子, 肉丸
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	肉丸
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	肉丸
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	肉丸
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	肉丸
Southern Min	Xiamen	肉圓仔
	Quanzhou	肉圓仔
	Zhangzhou	肉圓仔
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	肉丸
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	肉丸仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	肉丸
	Tainan	肉丸
	Tainan (Anping)	肉丸
	Manila (Hokkien)	肉圓
	Shantou	肉圓
	Jieyang	肉圓
	Haikou	肉丸
Wu	Shanghai	肉圓
	Shanghai (Chongming)	肉圓
	Danyang	肉圓
	Hangzhou	肉圓兒
	Ningbo	肉圓
	Wenzhou	肉圓

Japanese

Kanji in this term
肉	球
にく Grade: 2	きゅう Grade: 3
on’yomi

Noun

肉(にく)球(きゅう) • (nikukyū) 

1. pad (cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals)

   Synonym: 蹠球