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棋

JLPT N1 12 strokes Frequency: #1311

Meanings

Chess Piece, Japanese Chess, Shogi

Radicals

木

Decomposition

⿰木其

Etymology

Pictophonetic: wood

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

7 vertical right-to-left

8 horizontal left-to-right

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

キ ki

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ご go

Words Using This Kanji

44 words total

Other (20 words)

drawn game

skill in go or shogi

go or shogi board

halma (board game)

to play shogi

professional woman shogi player

平安将棋へいあんしょうぎ

Heian shogi (precursor to modern shogi)

大局将棋たいきょくしょうぎ

Taikyoku shogi (variant of shogi)

将棋駒しょうぎこま

shogi piece

行軍将棋こうぐんしょうぎ

gunjin shogi (board game)

軍人将棋ぐんじんしょうぎ

gunjin shogi (board game)

棋王きおう

Kiō (one of the eight major professional titles of shogi)

広将棋こうしょうぎ

kō shogi (large-board variant of shogi)

京都将棋きょうとしょうぎ

Kyoto shogi (modern variant of shogi played on a 5x5 board)

弾棋だんぎ

ancient Chinese board game similar to go

小将棋しょうしょうぎ

sho shogi (small 9x9 board shogi variant)

中将棋ちゅうしょうぎ

chu shogi (large 12x12 board shogi variant)

大大将棋だいだいしょうぎ

dai dai shogi (large Edo period 17x17 board shogi variant)

大将棋だいしょうぎ

dai shogi (large 15x15 board shogi variant)

泰将棋たいしょうぎ

tai shogi (very large 25x25 board shogi variant)

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