野球

Chinese

		field; plain; open space field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; wild	ball; sphere
simp. and trad. (野球)		野	球

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 野(や)球(きゅう) (yakyū)

Pronunciation

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yâ-khiù
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iá-kiû

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• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yâ-khiù
    • Hakka Romanization System: ia´ kiuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ya¹ kiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯a²⁴ kʰi̯u¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yâ-khiù
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ia´ kiuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ya¹ kiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯a²⁴ kʰi̯u¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iá-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: iá-kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iafkiuu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiu²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ia⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiu²⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 野球

1. (Taiwanese Min Nan and Hakka) baseball

Synonyms

• 棒球 (bàngqiú)

References

• “Entry #8079”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

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

Etymology

野 (ya, “field”) +‎ 球 (kyū, “ball”)

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 PROGRAM(ショート・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 baseball-game)

Synonyms

• ベースボール (bēsubōru)

Descendants

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

See also

• ソフトボール (sofutobōru)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja in this term
野	球

Noun

野球 • (yagu) (hangeul 야구, McCune–Reischauer yagu, Yale yākwu)

1. Hanja form^? of 야구 (“baseball”).

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
野	球

Noun

野球

1. chữ Hán form of dã cầu (“Baseball”).