ちきゅう
Meanings
Noun
1. Earth; the globe
Pitch accent
きゅう
Composed of
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
sphere; counter for balls
Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
earthling; earthman
terraforming
Examples (82 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 earth is made up of sea and land.
The astronauts returned safely to Earth.
Strictly speaking, the earth is not round.
Earth, Mars and Jupiter are planets.
One third of the earth's surface is desert.
Columbus believed that the earth was round.
Galileo argued that the earth moves.
Strictly speaking, the Earth is not a sphere.
The Earth rotates on its axis.
The earth is much larger than the moon.
We are always moving with the earth.
Actually, the earth is getting warmer.
It was once believed that the earth was the center of the universe.
No one knows when the Earth came into being.
Can you compute the distance of the moon from the earth?
The moon goes round the earth once a month.
The teacher taught them that the earth is round.
The sun makes the earth warm and light.
The earth is shaped like a sphere.
Land and water make up the earth's surface.
Gravity pulls things toward the center of the earth.
There is no telling exactly when the earth was born.
Seen from a spacecraft, the earth looks blue.
Water makes up most of the earth's surface.
We want to leave our descendants a clean and green earth.
In the zoos on Mars, there are animals from Earth.
The child believes that the earth is flat.
Is there life on other worlds?
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.
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.
Without water, nothing could live on this 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.
The sun is about 1,000,000 times as large as the earth.
Mars resembles our planet in some ways.
As far as we know, the earth is the only planet to have oceans.
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.
You can’t say that the Earth is flat just because Minecraft is flat!
Pigeons can find their way home with the help of the Earth's magnetic field.
The surface of the earth is 70% water.
Earth has a diameter of 12,742 kilometers.
The radius of Earth is about 6,000 kilometers.
The gravity of the moon is one-sixth of that of the earth.
Three-fourths of the earth's surface is water.
The earth is about six times as large as the moon.
The moon moves around the earth.
People once held that the world was flat.
Two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water.
The satellite made 10 orbits of the earth.
Land covers about 30 percent of the surface of the earth.
Nine planets including the earth are moving around the sun.
The distance from the sun to the earth is about 93 million miles.
Copernicus proposed the idea that the Earth travels around the Sun.
Formerly people did not know that the earth is round and that it moves around the sun.