棋
棋 — Chess piece
chess piece, Japanese chess, shogi
On’yomiキ (ki)
Kun’yomiご (go)
Stroke order (12 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 棋
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 将棋 | しょうぎ shougi | shogi; Japanese chess |
| 棋聖 | きせい kisei | great master of go; great master of shogi |
| 棋士 | きし kishi | professional shogi player; professional go player |
| 棋院 | きいん kiin | go institution; go club; go hall |
| 棋風 | きふう kifuu | one's style of playing shogi or go |
| 棋譜 | きふ kifu | record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc. |
Study notes
棋 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 12 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1311 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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