野球

野球

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yěqiú

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊ

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

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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): /jɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕʰjoʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yěqiúr
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yěcióur
    • Wade–Giles: yeh³-chʻiurh²
    • Yale: yě-chyóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeechyoul
    • Palladius: ецюр (jecjur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕʰjɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• 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/
• Min Nan
  • (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/

Etymology 1

		wild	ball
simp. and trad. (野球)		野	球

Noun

野球

1. informal ball game (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).

Noun

野球

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka) baseball

Synonyms

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

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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”)

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) やきゅう [yàkyúú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠kʲɨᵝː]

Noun

野(や)球(きゅう) • (yakyū) ^{←やきう (yakiu)?}

1. baseball (ball game)
   • 2007 July 23, Adachi, Mitsuru; 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)

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)

1. Hanja form^? of 야구 (“baseball”).