野球

Chinese

Etymology 1

		wild	ball
simp. and trad. (野球)		野	球

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yěqiú

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yěqiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yěcióu
    • Wade–Giles: yeh³-chʻiu²
    • Yale: yě-chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeechyou
    • Palladius: ецю (jecju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yěqiúr
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yěcióur
    • Wade–Giles: yeh³-chʻiu²-ʼrh
    • Yale: yě-chyóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeechyoul
    • Palladius: ецюр (jecjur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/

Noun

野球

1. informal ball game match (chiefly football or basketball)

Etymology 2

		field	ball
simp. and trad. (野球)		野	球

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 野(や)球(きゅう) (yakyū).

Pronunciation

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yâ-khiù

  (Hailu, HRS): rha^ˋ kiu

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iá-kiû

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• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yâ-khiù
    • Hakka Romanization System: ia^ˊ kiu^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ya¹ kiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯a²⁴ kʰi̯u¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yâ-khiù
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ia^ˊ kiu^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ya¹ kiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯a²⁴ kʰi̯u¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: rha^ˋ kiu
    • Sinological IPA: /ʒa⁵³ kʰiu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iá-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: iá-kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iafkiuu
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiu²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /ia⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiu²⁴/

Noun

野球

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka) baseball

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 棒球 (“baseball”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		棒球
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	棒球
	Singapore	棒球
Cantonese	Hong Kong	棒球
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	野球, 棒球
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	野球, 棒球
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	野球, 棒球
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	野球, 棒球
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	野球, 棒球
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	野球
Southern Min	Xiamen	棒球
	Quanzhou	棒球
	Zhangzhou	棒球
	Tainan	野球, 棒球

Japanese

Kanji in this term
野	球
や Grade: 2	きゅう Grade: 3
kan'on

Etymology

Coined by Japanese educator and baseball player Kanae Chūman in 1894 as a calque of English baseball, from 野(や) (ya, “field”) + 球(きゅう) (kyū, “ball, sphere”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ja̠kʲɨː]
• (Tokyo) やきゅう [yàkyúú] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

野(や)球(きゅう) • (yakyū) ^{←やきう (yakiu)?}

1. baseball (ball game)
   • 2007 July 23, Mitsuru Adachi with Buronson, “白い夏 [White Summer]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, pages 193–194:

     や、やめろ！やめてくれ……勝(か)つためだけに野(や)球(きゅう)をやってるんじゃない……友(とも)達(だち)を…一(いっ)生(しょう)の友(とも)達(だち)を……

     Ya, yamero! Yamete kure…… Katsu tame dake ni yakyū o yatterun ja nai…… Tomodachi o… Isshō no tomodachi o……

     St-Stop, you two! Just stop... Baseball isn’t all about winning... It’s where you make friends... the best friends in your life...

2. a baseball (ball used in the game)

Synonyms

• ベースボール (bēsubōru)
• ベイスボール (beisubōru)

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • → Hakka: 野球 (yâ-khiù)
  • → Min Nan: 野球 (iá-kiû)
• → Korean: 야구(野球) (yagu)
• → Marshallese: iakiu

See also

• ソフトボール (sofutobōru)

References

• “野球”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
野	球

Noun

野球 • (yagu) (hangeul 야구)

1. hanja form^? of 야구 (“baseball”)