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足球

zúqiú

football

HSK 3 · Topic “Sports and games”
A person kicking a ball
Memory picture

Characters in this word

足 zú

Strokes
7
Radical
足 — foot
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 足

球 qiú

Strokes
11
Radical
王 — king, ruler
Made of
王 king, ruler 求 to seek
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 我踢足球。 Wǒ tī zúqiú. I play football.
  • 他爱足球。 Tā ài zúqiú. He loves football.
  • 他们看足球。 Tāmen kàn zúqiú. They watch football.

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