野球

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 野 (や)球 (きゅう) (yakyū)

Pronunciation

Noun

野球

1. (Taiwanese Min Nan and Hakka) baseball

References

• “Entry #8079”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Etymology

野 (ya, “field”) +‎ 球 (kyū, “ball”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

野球 (hiragana やきゅう, rōmaji yakyū, historical hiragana やきう)

1. baseball (ball game)
   • 2007 July 23, Adachi, Mitsuru; Buronson, “白い夏 [White Summer]”, in SHORT PROGRAMショート・プログラム [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 3 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 194:

     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……

     Yametekure…… Katsu tame dake ni yakyū o yatterun ja nai…… Tomodachi o… Isshō no tomodachi o……

     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 baseball-game)

Descendants

• → Hakka: 野球 (yâ-khiù)
• → Korean: 야구 (yagu)
• → Min Nan: 野球 (iá-kiû)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Noun

野球 • (yagu) (hangeul 야구, McCune–Reischauer yagu, Yale yākwu)

1. Hanja form^? of 야구 (“baseball”).