棒球

棒球

Chinese

		a stick; club or cudgel; smart a stick; club or cudgel; smart; capable; strong	ball; sphere
simp. and trad. (棒球)		棒	球
anagram		球棒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bàngqiú

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄤˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paang⁵ kau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pong-khiù
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pāng-kiû / pǎng-kiû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bang⁶ giu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàngqiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàngcióu
    • Wade–Giles: pang⁴-chʻiu²
    • Yale: bàng-chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banqchyou
    • Palladius: банцю (bancju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰjoʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàngqiúr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄤˋ ㄑㄧㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàngcióur
    • Wade–Giles: pang⁴-chʻiurh²
    • Yale: bàng-chyóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banqchyoul
    • Palladius: банцюр (bancjur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰjɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paang⁵ kau⁴
    • Yale: páahng kàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paang⁵ kau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pang⁵ keo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːŋ¹³ kʰɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pong-khiù
    • Hakka Romanization System: bong kiuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bong⁴ kiu²
    • Sinological IPA: /poŋ⁵⁵ kʰi̯u¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pāng-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: pāng-kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paxngkiuu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /paŋ³³⁻²¹ kiu²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /paŋ²²⁻²¹ kiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /paŋ²²⁻²¹ kiu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /paŋ³³⁻¹¹ kiu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǎng-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: pǎng-kiû
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paŋ²² kiu²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bang⁶ giu⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: păng kiû
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ kiu⁵⁵/

Noun

棒球

1. (sports) baseball (sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan)
2. baseball (ball used to play the sport of baseball)

Synonyms

• (baseball as a sport):

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

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		棒球
Mandarin	Taiwan	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
Min Nan	Xiamen	棒球
	Quanzhou	棒球
	Zhangzhou	棒球
	Tainan	野球, 棒球

Derived terms

棒球帽 (bàngqiúmào)

職棒／职棒 (zhíbàng)