毬

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See also: 球
毬 U+6BEC, 毬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BEC
← 毫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 毭 →

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

trad. 毬
simp. 球*

Pronunciation

Definitions

毬

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Compounds

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)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
毬
まり
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
鞠

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.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
毬
いが
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Noun

毬(いが) or 毬(イガ) • (iga) 

  1. burr (seed pod of a chestnut or similar tree)
    • 2005, Mihara Yoshiaki, Kyūjūsai yamamori no yuigon: mori no kenkō to hito no kenkō ‎, 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.
Derived terms

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
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