The coin toss decides who will kick off the match.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开球
open ball (math.)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
open ball (math.)
02
to start a ball game
03
to kick off (soccer)
04
to tee off (golf)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开球 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开球 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Do you have any idea what time is kickoff?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开球.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开球.
Directly before
- 中线开球1
- 来开球1
Directly after
- 开球吗1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 开球
What does 开球 mean in Chinese?
开球 (kāiqiú) means open ball (math.).
How do you pronounce 开球?
开球 is pronounced kāiqiú.
Is 开球 an HSK word?
开球 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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