Chinese word dictionary

蹴鞠

cù jū · cuju, ancient Chinese football (soccer)

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Word information

Simplified蹴鞠

Traditional蹴鞠

Pinyincù jū

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

蹴cù

to leap; to kick; solemn

鞠jū

to bow, to bend; to nourish, to rear

How to learn 蹴鞠

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

Compare how a familiar Hanzi changes meaning inside another word.

鞠躬jūgōng

to bow; (literary) to bend down

一蹴而就yī cù ér jiù

to get there in one step (idiom); easily done; success at a stroke; to get results overnight

一蹴而得yī cù ér dé

to get there in one step (idiom); easily done; success at a stroke; to get results overnight

一蹴可几yī cù kě jī

to succeed at the first try (idiom); easy as pie; one can do it at once

一蹴即至yī cù jí zhì

lit. to get there in one step (idiom); fig. easily done

鞠躬尽力jū gōng jìn lì

to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost; same as 鞠躬盡瘁|鞠躬尽瘁[ju1 gong1 jin4 cui4]