毬

Meaning

毬 centers on a round, often prickly or fuzzy object: a burr or a ball. The two meanings are connected by the idea of a small, rounded, possibly spiky thing.

• 毬いが

  burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case

• 毬かさ

  cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)

• 毬藻まりも

  marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green algae; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball

• 手毬てまり

  traditional Japanese handball game

• 毬栗いがぐり

  chestnut in its burr

• 大手毬おおでまり

  Japanese snowball; Viburnum plicatum

• 小手毬こでまり

  Reeve's spirea (Spiraea cantoniensis); May bush

• 手毬花てまりばな

  temaribana; Japanese snowball (Viburnum plicatum)

• 打毬だきゅう

  dakyū; polo-like game

• 松毬貝まつかさがい

  Pronodularia japanensis (species of freshwater mussel)

• 松毬魚まつかさうお

  Japanese pinecone fish (Monocentris japonica)

• 毬投げまりなげ

  playing catch

• 毬杖ぎっちょう

  ball-and-mallet game played during New Year's celebrations

• 毬栗蟹いがぐりがに

  Paralomis histrix (species of king crab); porcupine crab

• 金葉手毬きんばでまり

  Viburnum plicatum var. plicatum

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