毬

See also: 球

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

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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

Definitions

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.

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Japanese

Kanji

毬

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. ball, anything round, sphere

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 毬 (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