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Kanji Detail for 碁

Kanji Detail for 碁 - "Go, board game, strategy"

碁

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
碁 means "Go, board game, strategy."
1. Go - The strategic board game.
2. Chess - A board game of strategy.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

Go

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

chess; any game similar to chess

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

variant of 棋[qi2]

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

围碁 (Go). Same as 棋.
Onyomi

go(ご)

ki(き)
Kunyomi
none
Strokes

13 strokes
Radical

石 (ishi・ishihen)
Related Keywords
Go chess board game strategy game play stones black white competition skill thinking planning tactics intellectual wisdom ancient traditional Japanese Chinese

Sentences including 碁

父は碁をやります。
Father goes in for the game of go.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

私は退屈な父の相手としてよく将碁盤に向かった。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
「碁だと盤が高過ぎる上に、足が着いているから、炬燵の上では打てないが、そこへ来ると将碁盤は好いね、こうして楽に差せるから」
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
要するに、勝っても負けても、炬燵にあたって、将碁を差したがる男であった。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
それでいて、この将碁を差したがる父は、単なる娯楽の相手としても私には物足りなかった。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha

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