U+7403 "球" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+7403 "球" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced as "qiú" in Mandarin, which primarily means "ball" or "sphere" and is widely used to refer to spherical objects or globes. It is a common kanji in Japanese and a hanja in Korean, carrying similar meanings of roundness or a ball-shaped item. The character is formed from the radical "王" (jade) on the left, combined with "求" (to seek or demand) on the right, which together create a semantic-phonetic compound indicating a precious or valuable round object. In modern usage, "球" appears in words for sports (e.g., "足球" for soccer, "篮球" for basketball), celestial bodies (e.g., "月球" for the moon), and even in informal contexts like "球赛" for a ball game. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, encoding a shared core of East Asian writing systems.