ちきゅう
Meanings
Noun
1. Earth; the globe
Pitch accent
ち
きゅう
Composed of
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
sphere; globe; ball; sphere; counter for pitches
Used in vocabulary (37 in total)
earthling; earthman; terrestrial; citizen of Earth
global environment
Examples (77 in total)
The earth is beautiful.
Even so, the Earth moves!
The atmosphere surrounds the earth.
The resources of the earth are limited.
Industrial wastes pollute the earth.
We are humans and we are from Earth.
We all live on the earth.
The earth moves around the sun.
The earth is small compared with the sun.
The earth is small in comparison with the sun.
The Earth is not a perfect sphere.
The earth is shaped like an orange.
They argued that the earth is round.
The radius of Earth is about 6,000 kilometers.
The earth is made up of sea and land.
The astronauts returned safely to Earth.
The earth is not a star, but a planet.
The gravity of the moon is one-sixth of that of the earth.
Strictly speaking, the earth is not round.
Three-fourths of the earth's surface is water.
Earth, Mars and Jupiter are planets.
Columbus believed that the earth was round.
Galileo argued that the earth moves.
Strictly speaking, the Earth is not a sphere.
The earth is much larger than the moon.
We are always moving with the earth.
The earth goes around the sun once a year.
Actually, the earth is getting warmer.
It was once believed that the earth was the center of the universe.
Can you compute the distance of the moon from the earth?
The earth is about six times as large as the moon.
The teacher taught them that the earth is round.
The moon goes round the earth once a month.
The sun makes the earth warm and light.
Gravity pulls things toward the center of the earth.
The earth is shaped like a sphere.
Land and water make up the earth's surface.
Seen from a spacecraft, the earth looks blue.
We want to leave our descendants a clean and green earth.
Water makes up most of the earth's surface.
The earth moves around the sun in 365 days.
In the zoos on Mars, there are animals from Earth.
The child believes that the earth is flat.
People once held that the world was flat.
So there is a magnetic field around earth.
We think nuclear weapons will destroy our earth.
The equator divides the globe into two hemispheres.
The ancients believed the earth was flat.
I'm worried about the global warming trend.
The earth is not symmetrical about the equator.
Rainforests provide the earth with many benefits.
Two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water.
The United Nations makes efforts to keep the earth in a state of peace.
The magnetite is attracted to the earth's magnetic field.
We believed that the earth moves round the sun.
Seen from the moon, the earth looks like a ball.
They know the importance of protecting the earth.
The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.
Without water, nothing could live on this earth.
The satellite made 10 orbits of the earth.
We ourselves have to be responsible for the earth.
He said that the Earth goes round the Sun.
By the end of the century, the earth will have experienced a dramatic increase in temperature.
We learned that the earth goes around the sun.
The sun is about 1,000,000 times as large as the earth.
As far as we know, the earth is the only planet to have oceans.
Nine planets including the earth are moving around the sun.
Land covers about 30 percent of the surface of the earth.
The spaceship was never to return to Earth.
Venus is similar in size to Earth. Earth is just a little bit bigger.
What do you think would happen if the earth stopped spinning?
What would you do if this was your last day on Earth?
There are nine planets travelling around the sun, the earth being one of them.
Copernicus proposed the idea that the Earth travels around the Sun.
The distance from the sun to the earth is about 93 million miles.
You can’t say that the Earth is flat just because Minecraft is flat!
Formerly people did not know that the earth is round and that it moves around the sun.