List: go (game)
Vocabulary related with the game of Go, considered the oldest board games still being played.
popular noun noun (generic) go (game)
- general situation, whole situation, larger picture, main point
- overall situation of a game
popular food, cooking noun noun (generic) go (game)
- dango, dumpling (usu. sweet), doughboy
- ball-shaped object, something round
- lump, group, bunch, knot, tight crowd
- dango, inefficient clump of stones
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb colloquial usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to slide, to glide, to skate, to ski
- to slip, to skid
- to be slippery
- to fail (an examination)
- to lose (a position), to be demoted
- to bomb (when telling a joke), to fall flat
- to slide (move)
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) printing go (game)
- geta, traditional Japanese wooden sandal
- turn (in set-type proofing), upside-down character
- net, geta
popular noun noun (generic) go (game)
- emergency, crisis, critical moment
- urgent move (required to prevent a major loss, to stabilize a group, etc.), urgent point
popular obsolete reading search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone go (game)
- interval, space, interstice, threshold
- valley, gorge, ravine
- loophole (in a wall), crenel, eyelet
- diagonal gap, move played in a diagonal gap, space between two stones diagonally apart
popular noun noun (generic) go (game)
- starting (e.g. of an engine), engaging (e.g. of a lock)
- expenses, costs
- attack (esp. a corner approach)
- barb (of a fish hook)
- charge, duty, person in charge, official, clerk
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb go (game)
- longevity
- eternal life, cycle that can be repeated indefinitely and neither group dies
popular noun noun (generic) go (game)
- one child
- only child
- one of several children (esp. the son and heir)
- one stone
popular noun noun (generic) go (game)
- standard practice, playing by the book, established tactic, formula
- joseki (jลseki), standard sequence of moves (esp. in a corner)