List: go (game)
Vocabulary related with the game of Go, considered the oldest board games still being played.
popular irregular okurigana rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) go (game)
- vacant land, unoccupied ground, empty lot
- empty point
popular shogi go (game) noun noun (generic)
- sealed move, next move written down and kept sealed in an envelope until the game is resumed the following day
- forbidden maneuver (in sumo, martial arts, etc.), forbidden technique
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb go (game)
- (formal) meeting with a view to marriage, interview with a prospective spouse
- correspondence, balance
- miai, two different options such that if one player takes one, the other player can take the other
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb law go (game) shogi
- starting work (on), setting to work (on), setting about (doing), beginning, commencing, embarking on
- commencing (a crime)
- playing (a move)
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) go (game)
- life and death, life or death
- life and death (of a group of stones)
popular noun noun (generic) go (game) linguistics
- crossing, passage, transit
- importing, import
- wandering, wanderer
- migration
- contact, relations, negotiations
- watari, connection underneath the opponent's stones at or near the edge of the board
- glide
popular search-only kana form noun noun (generic) photography usually written using kana alone go (game)
- shibori, tie-dye, tie-dyeing
- aperture, aperture stop, stop
- contraction, squeezing, choke
- squeeze
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone go (game)
- avalanche, snowslide
- avalanche, avalanche jลseki
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb go (game)
- omitting crucial steps, cutting corners, skimping
- intentional negligence
- tenuki, making a move which is not a direct counter to one's opponent's last move
popular noun noun (generic) go (game)
- texture (cloth, fabric, paper)
- market tone, undertone
- balance between the position of white and black stones