きゅう
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. sphere; globe; ball; bulb
Noun
Math
2. ball; sphere
Counter
Baseball
3. counter for pitches
Pitch accent
きゅ
う
Used in vocabulary (96 in total)
Earth; the globe
badminton
miracle ball; magic ball
baseball
(sole of the) paw; pad
breaking ball (pitch); curve ball; screwball
baseball team
fly (ball)
(plant) bulb
eosinophil; eosinophile; acidophil; acidophile; eosinophilic leukocyte; acidophilic leukocyte
sphere; globe; orb; ball
fireball; bolide; fireball
water polo
hemisphere
globular shape; spherical shape
spherical; globular; globe-shaped
balloon (hot-air, weather, etc.); blimp
baseball stadium; ballpark
pitching; throwing a ball; bowling (in cricket); pitched ball
hitting (a ball with a bat, racket, golf club, etc.); batting; batted ball; struck ball
ball game (e.g. baseball, tennis, soccer); billiards
celestial sphere; the heavens
white ball (baseball, golf ball, etc.)
hard ball; regulation ball
return throw (esp. from an outfielder); returning the ball (in tennis, volleyball, etc.)
spherical surface; sphere
speed of a pitch; velocity
hot-air balloon
type of pitch
(pitcher's) stuff
base on balls; walk; pass
whole earth; global
pickoff throw; pickoff attempt
baseball-playing teenager; high-school baseball player
three-pitch strikeout
steel ball; bearing ball
good pitch (to hit); easy pitch
the baseball world
soft ball; rubber ball
neutrophil; neutrophilic leukocyte
small ball; globule; spherule; pellet
miniature light bulb; midget lamp
(pitcher's) control
pitch that hits the batter
fast, heavy ball; fastball
cotton ball; swab
basketball
cone; strobile; strobilus
volleyball
ball which is hard to hit or catch
vacuum tube
infectious mononucleosis; mono; glandular fever
night-light bulb; (lit.) jujube bulb
night-light bulb; (lit.) jujube bulb
baseball all-star game
outside pitch
wet and dry-bulb thermometer
prolate spheroid
characteristics of a (thrown) ball (light, heavy, etc.)
subconjunctival hemorrhage; subconjunctival bleeding; hyposphagma
waiting for a good hit at a pitch
bulbus glandis; knot (of a canid penis)
career of a baseball player
spherical coordinates
wheat bulb; wheat grain light bulb
vestibular bulb; bulb of the vestibule
spotlight bulb (e.g. in interior lighting)
band cell; stab cell
time ball
polymorphonuclear leukocyte; polymorphonuclear leucocyte
Global Earth Observation System of Systems; GEOSS
official history of the Ryukyu Kingdom (compiled between 1743 and 1745); Kyūyō (poetic name for the Ryukyu Islands)
ball-and-ring method; ring-and-ball test
bulb with reservoir; double balloon
spherical segment; segment of a sphere
spherical cap; spherical dome
spherical zone
spherulite
legendary player (of a ball game)
bulb of penis; urethral bulb
Global Times (Chinese newspaper)
Examples (4 in total)
The ball curved slightly.
Strictly speaking, the Earth is not a sphere.
The earth is shaped like a sphere.