碁
碁 — Go
Go
On’yomiゴ (go)
Kun’yomi—
Stroke order (13 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 碁
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 囲碁 | いご igo | go (board game) |
| 碁 | ご go | go (board game) |
| 碁盤 | ごばん goban | Go board |
Study notes
碁 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 13 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1609 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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