Football pinyin: [?zú qiú?]

1. foot; leg: ~ trace. ~ ball. Dance with your hands ~. Drawing a snake to add ~.

2. The lower part of an object shaped like the supporting part of a leg: tripod ~.

3. Referring to the sport of soccer: ~ altar. Female ~.

4. surname.

5. sufficient; worthy (mostly used in the negative): not ~ as a proof. A slight ~ is not the way.

Ball, a first-class Chinese character. The original meaning of its character is beautiful jade, Guangyun: "ball, beautiful jade also." . In Shuowen Jiezi (说文解字)："Ball, jade chime is also (an ancient jade musical instrument) from jade, seeking sound." Pronounced ball (qiú). Later, it was extended to mean a three-dimensional object in an absolutely regular circle, such as a sports ball, and was also pronounced as "qiú" (毬).

1. Mathematically, it refers to the three-dimensionality of a circle. The distance from the center to all points on the surface is equal.

2. Certain sporting goods or ball games: foot ~. ~ race.

3. something spherical: coal ~.

4. A special reference to the earth or stars: all ~. Moon ~.