List: go (game)
Vocabulary related with the game of Go, considered the oldest board games still being played.
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) go (game)
- barrier, gate
- seki, mutual life
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) go (game)
- pattern, figure, design
- state, condition
- conjecture of the current situation, the way it seems
- model, pattern, example
- indicates that something seems likely (e.g. rain or storm)
- framework, territorial framework, moyo
popular go (game) shogi noun noun (generic)
- position in a game, state of the game
- situation, stage, phase, aspect
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) go (game) slang sumo
- star (usu. not including the Sun), planet (usu. not including Earth), heavenly body
- star (glyph, symbol, shape)
- star (actor, player, etc.)
- small dot, spot, fleck
- star point (intersection marked with a dot), hoshi
- perp, perpetrator, mark, offender, suspect
- bullseye
- one's star (that determines one's fate), one's fortune
- point, score
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone go (game) archaic Osaka-ben
- beach, seashore
- captured pieces, captured stones
- Yokohama
- riverbank, riverside
popular go (game) noun noun (generic)
- Hon'inbล, Honinbo, grandmaster
popular JLPT N1 noun (suffix) noun (generic) counter go (game)
- arrival, arriving at ...
- counter for items or suits of clothing
- nth place (in a race)
- counter for moves
popular rarely-used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) go (game) fishing suffix
- hit
- success
- guess, prediction
- affability, friendliness
- sensation, touch
- bruise (on fruit)
- situation in which a stone or chain of stones may be captured on the next move
- bite (of a fish on a hook), strike
- per, each
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb mahjong go (game) auxiliary verb
- to cut, to cut through, to perform (surgery)
- to sever (connections, ties)
- to turn off (e.g. the light)
- to terminate (e.g. a conversation), to hang up (the phone), to disconnect
- to punch (a ticket), to tear off (a stub)
- to open (something sealed)
- to start
- to set (a limit), to do (something) in less or within a certain time, to issue (cheques, vouchers, etc.)
- to reduce, to decrease, to discount
- to shake off (water, etc.), to let drip-dry, to let drain
- to cross, to traverse
- to criticize sharply
- to act decisively, to do (something noticeable), to go first, to make (certain facial expressions, in kabuki)
- to turn (vehicle, steering wheel, etc.)
- to curl (a ball), to bend, to cut
- to shuffle (cards)
- to discard a tile
- to dismiss, to sack, to let go, to expulse, to excommunicate
- to dig (a groove), to cut (a stencil, on a mimeograph)
- to trump
- to cut (the connection between two groups)
- to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking a metal against stone)
- to draw (a shape) in the air (with a sword, etc.)
- to do completely
popular noun noun (generic) go (game) usually written using kana alone prefix
- living, being alive
- freshness, liveliness, vitality
- situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps
- stet (proofreading), leave as-is
- damned