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棋

棋 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Origin of the character

形声。「木」+音符「其」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

chess piece, Japanese chess, shogi

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • キJHS
Kun (native)
  • ご
Other languages
  • 拼音qi2
  • 한글gi
  • Hán-ViệtKỳ
  • Hán-ViệtKí

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
木(き)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+68CB

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰木其

Words using this kanji

  • 棋聖きせい囲碁や将棋の達人。great master of go, great master of shogi
  • 棋士きし囲碁・将棋などの対局を行う職業、もしくはそれに従事する者の総称。professional shogi player, professional go player
  • 棋院きいん囲碁や将棋に関係する団体。go institution, go club, go hall
  • 棋譜きふ囲碁・将棋・チェス・リバーシなどの対局の手順を記した記録。record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc.
  • 棋風きふう将棋や囲碁、チェス、リバーシなどのボードゲームにおける、その人の着手の特徴。one's style of playing shogi or go
  • 棋界きかい囲碁や将棋に関連する社会。world of go, world of shogi, go circles, shogi circles
  • 棋客きかく囲碁や将棋をする人。shogi player, go player
  • 棋道きどう囲碁・将棋を極めるための修練の世界。また囲碁・将棋自体のこと。art of shogi, art of go
  • 棋戦きせん囲碁や将棋の勝負。go or shogi tournament
  • 棋布きふ並べた碁石のように点々と散らばっていること。scattering (of islands, Go pieces, etc., often in harmonious balance), dispersal, constellation, irregular spread
  • 棋力きりょく囲碁・将棋の強さ・技量。skill in go or shogi
  • 棋局ききょく碁盤。将棋盤。 囲碁や将棋の局面。go or shogi board, position of a game of go or shogi
  • 棋王きおうKiō (one of the eight major professional titles of shogi), shogi king

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(47 results)

Similar-looking kanji

Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-8
Four Corner
4498.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4a8.14
Heisig
1900
Nelson
2294