囲碁いご (igo)

go (game)

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Meaning

囲碁 (いご, igo) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “go (game)”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 4

かれ趣味しゅみ囲碁いごです。

His hobby is playing "go."

趣味は囲碁。

His hobby was Igo.

名人(囲碁)。

He was a master (which is called Meijin in Japanese) of go.

如仏の判決(にょぶつのはんけつ)は、囲碁のルールのうちの死活において「両劫に仮生一つ」を認めたという鎌倉時代の判例。

Judgment of Nyobutsu is a leading case in Kamakura period concerning the life-and-death judgment in the rules of Igo (board game of capturing territory), admitting a kasho (tentative life) in double ko.