Word Meaning

go

棋 is read as ご (go) and means go (board game).

Meaning

English

  1. go (board game)

Reading

Kana

Romaji

go

Writing Variants

  • go
  • go

Stroke Sequence

1 Characters • 12 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 6094 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

棋譜

きふ

record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc.

棋院

きいん

go institution

棋士

きし

professional shogi player

棋聖

きせい

great master of go

棋風

きふう

one's style of playing shogi or go

棋界

きかい

world of go

将棋

しょうぎ

shogi

詰め将棋

つめしょうぎ

composed shogi problem

将棋倒し

しょうぎだおし

falling down one after another (like dominoes)

日本棋院

にほんきいん

Nihon Kiin (national go organization of Japan)

日本将棋連盟

にほんしょうぎれんめい

Japan Shogi Association

Example Sentences

10

かれはしょうぎのきふをまいにちつけている。

He records his shogi game notation every day.

そふはむかし、しょうぎのきしだった。

My grandfather used to be a professional shogi player.

このみせにはきでできたしょうぎのきがあります。

This shop has wooden shogi pieces.

そのしょうねんはきをならべはじめた。

The boy began arranging the game pieces.

ちちはきゅうじつになるときをさす。

My father plays a board game with pieces on his days off.

かのじょはきのるーるをすぐにおぼえた。

She quickly learned the rules of the piece-based game.

しょうぎはにほんをだいひょうするきのひとつです。

Shogi is one of Japan's representative piece-based games.

ばんのうえにきがひとつたりない。

One game piece is missing from the board.

かれはきのうごかしかたをていねいにおしえてくれた。

He carefully taught me how to move the pieces.

Do you want to play shogi?