List: go (game)
Vocabulary related with the game of Go, considered the oldest board games still being played.
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
popular go (game) noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- strategic arrangement of go stones at the beginning of a game, opening moves
- preparations, preparatory steps, arrangements, (laying the) groundwork (for)
popular noun noun (generic) go (game) shogi
- losing initiative, being forestalled
- moving second, person with the second move
- gote, move that does not require an immediate response from the opponent
- rear guard
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 JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial usually written using kana alone intransitive verb linguistics go (game)
- to receive, to get
- to catch (e.g. a ball)
- to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
- to sustain (damage), to incur (a loss), to suffer (an injury), to feel (influence)
- to undergo (e.g. surgery), to take (a test), to accept (a challenge)
- to be given (e.g. life, talent)
- to find funny, to find humorous, to be amused (by)
- to follow, to succeed, to be descended from
- to face (south, etc.)
- to be modified by
- to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee
- to be well-received, to become popular, to go down well
- to answer (to an opponent's move), to respond, to react
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