Kanji N1

棋: chess piece, Japanese chess, shogi

棋 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning chess piece, Japanese chess, shogi, written with 12 strokes. It is read キ (on) and ご (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 将棋 (しょうぎ, shogi) and 棋聖 (きせい, great master of go).

棋

Meanings

  • chess piece
  • Japanese chess
  • shogi
Strokes12
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1311 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • キ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • ご

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 12. Start at the dot.

Common words with 棋

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 将棋しょうぎ

    shogi; Japanese chess

    JLPT N2
  • 棋聖きせい

    great master of go; great master of shogi

  • 棋士きし

    professional shogi player

  • 棋院きいん

    go institution; go club; go hall

  • 棋譜きふ

    record of a game of go, shogi, chess, etc.

  • 将棋倒ししょうぎだおし

    falling down one after another (like dominoes)

  • 棋風きふう

    one's style of playing shogi or go

  • 棋界きかい

    world of go; world of shogi; go circles

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.