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Chinese symbol for “billiards”

台球
tái qiú
billiards

The closest CC-CEDICT match for billiards is 台球 (tái qiú), defined as: billiards.

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Characters and stroke order

台 tái
platform; unit; term of address
radical 30 ⼝ · 5 strokes
球 qiú
ball, globe, sphere; round
radical 96 ⽟ · 11 strokes

Other Chinese words for “billiards”

WordPinyinMeaning
撞球zhuàng qiúbilliards; billiards ball
桌球zhuō qiútable tennis; table tennis ball (Tw)
弹子 (彈子)dàn zislingshot pellet; playing marbles

Related words

Other words that share a character with 台球.

WordPinyinMeaning
平台 (平臺)píng táiplatform; terrace
电视台 (電視台)diàn shì táitelevision station
电台 (電臺)diàn táitransmitter-receiver; broadcasting station
舞台 (舞臺)wǔ tái(lit. and fig.) stage; arena
出台 (出臺)chū táito officially launch (a policy, program etc); to appear on stage
全球quán qiúthe whole world; worldwide; global
足球zú qiúsoccer; football; a soccer ball; a football
地球dì qiúthe earth

See also: Japanese symbol for “billiards”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.