毬

毬 (Kangxi radical 82, 毛+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹山戈十水 (HUIJE), four-corner 2371₃, composition ⿺毛求)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 593, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16837
• Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1998, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6BEC

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡu): semantic 毛 (“hair”) + phonetic 求 (OC *ɡu)

毬

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(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. ball
2. bur; husk; cone

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: まり (mari, 毬)、いが (iga, 毬)

• 毬杖(ぎっちょう) (gitchō)
• 打毬(だきゅう) (dakyū)

毬(まり) • (mari) 

1. a ball; (especially) a ball used to play kemari
   • 1947, Toyoshima Yoshio, Kin no me gin no me:

     危(あぶ)ない!と太(た)郎(ろう)が思(おも)ったとたん、少(しょう)年(ねん)は毬(まり)から転(ころ)がり落(お)ち、毬(まり)は見(けん)物(ぶつ)人(にん)のひざにはねかえりました。

     Abunai! to Tarō ga omotta totan, shōnen wa mari kara korogari ochi, mari wa kenbutsunin no hiza ni hanekaerimashita.

     Just as Taro was thinking “Watch out!”, the young man with the ball tumbled down and the ball ricocheted into the knees of the spectators.

• 手毬(てまり) (temari)
• 毬藻(マリモ) (marimo)

毬(いが) or 毬(イガ) • (iga) 

1. burr (seed pod of a chestnut or similar tree)
   • 2005, Mihara Yoshiaki, Kyūjūsai yamamori no yuigon: mori no kenkō to hito no kenkō [Testament of a 90 year old forest ranger: Health of forests and health of people]‎^[1], page 11:

     秋(あき)になると、その自(じ)生(せい)樹(き)に大(おお)きな栗(くり)の毬(いが)がなり始(はじ)めたのです。

     Aki ni naru to, sono jisei ki ni ōkina kuri no iga ga nari hajimeta no desu.

     In autumn, the large, native chestnuts have just begun to put out seed burrs.

• 毬栗(いがくり) (igakuri)
• 毬酸漿(イガホオズキ) (igahōzuki)

毬 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

1. ball, anything round, sphere

毬: Hán Nôm readings: cầu

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• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999