棋

Translingual

Han character

棋 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木廿一金 (DTMC), four-corner 4498₁, composition ⿰木其)

1. Go - an ancient game of Chinese origin, played with "stones" (round pieces) on a wooden board; the character alludes to these wooden and stone components. The left side of the character depicts a tree; the right side depicts a stone temple.
2. chess
3. any similar strategic board game, especially abstract strategy game.

References

• KangXi: page 532, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14922
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1224, character 4
• Unihan data for U+68CB

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		棋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): kî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (棋, reconstructed)
Character (碁), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 群 (30) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 渠之切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɡɨ/	/gi/	/ɡiə/	/ɡɨ/	/gɨ/	/ɡĭə/	/ɡie/

Old Chinese pronunciation (棋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
棋								qí								‹ gi ›								/*[ɡ](r)ə/								chess, board game
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
棋					9946					其					之					0					其					/*ɡɯ/					木根，又棊注通作棋

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

棋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. token

Readings

• Goon: ぎ (gi) (non-Jōyō reading), ご (go) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: き (ki)

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Korean

Hanja

棋 (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棋 (kỳ, cời, cờ, cơi, kè, kì)

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