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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Cantonese

Hanzi

棋 (Yale kei4)

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Japanese

Kanji

棋 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: き (ki), ぎ (gi)
• Kun: ご (go)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

棋 (pinyin qí (qi2), Wade-Giles ch'i²)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

棋 (POJ kî)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棋 (kỳ, cời, cờ, cơi, kè, kì)