Word Meaning 桂馬

けいま keima

桂馬 is read as けいま (keima) and means knight.

Meaning

English

  1. knight
  2. keima
  3. knight's move
  4. stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color

Reading

Kana

けいま

Romaji

keima

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 20 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Jinmeiyō Kanken 準1級 Rank 134022 Priority V

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

大桂馬

おおげいま

ogeima

かつら

katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)

桂園時代

けいえんじだい

Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912)

桂月

けいげつ

moon

桂成り

けいなり

knight promotion

三冠馬

さんかんば

winner of Japan's three main horse races

騎馬

きば

horse riding

跳馬

ちょうば

long horse (for vaulting)

対抗馬

たいこうば

rival horse

千里馬

ちょんりま

Chollima

人間万事塞翁が馬

じんかんばんじさいおうがうま

inscrutable are the ways of heaven

司馬

しば

Minister of War (Zhou dynasty China)