Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
chess piece, Japanese chess, shogi
Kun:
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1311 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 棋士 【キシ】 professional shogi player, professional go player
  • 棋院 【キイン】 go institution, go club, go hall
  • 弾棋 【ダンギ】 ancient Chinese board game similar to go

Kun reading compounds

  • 碁 【ご】 go (board game)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi2
Korean:
gi

Spanish

  • pieza de ajedrez
  • ajedrez japonés
  • shogi

Portuguese

  • peça de xadrez
  • xadrez Japonês
  • shogi

French

  • pièce d'échec
  • échecs japonais
  • shogi
1130 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1259 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2294 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1794 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1438 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1835 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1985 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1535 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1099 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1242 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
675 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
899 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1779 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14922 Morohashi
987 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2744 New Nelson (John Haig)
1763 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1900 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1552 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1861 2001 Kanji
4a8.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-8 SKIP code
4498.1 Four corner code
1-20-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
68cb Unicode hex code