DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

球友

Mandarin · pinyin qiú yǒu

(ball game) enthusiast (player)
golf buddy (or tennis buddy etc)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

球: qiú · ball, sphere, globe; round
友: yǒu · friend, companion; fraternity

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–3 · qiu2 you3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

球友 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗