Mind you, not all the words from Dìqiú we've seen have been from Tongyu (Chinese); a good many have been Tukisi (which is derived from Inuktitut, usually the dialect spoken in eastern Nunavut) or Kokugo (essentially Japanese), both of which have different rules.

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