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囲碁 いご

  1. go (board game)

ポン抜き囲碁 ポンぬきいご

  1. atari go; first-capture go; go variant where whoever first captures one or more stones wins; ponnuki go

野狐囲碁 のぎつねいご

  1. Fox; Fox Weiqi (Chinese online go server) (abbr)

味 あじ N4

  1. flavor; flavour; taste
  2. appeal; attractiveness; charm; uniqueness
  3. experience; taste (e.g. of victory)
  4. clever; smart; strange; witty
  5. aji; position that has some lingering potential that may be exploited later in the game

筋 すじ N3

  1. muscle; sinew; tendon
  2. artery; vein
  3. fiber; fibre; string
  4. line; streak; stripe
  5. logic; reason
  6. plot; storyline
  7. descent; lineage
  8. school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
  9. aptitude; talent
  10. channel; circle; source (of information, etc.)
  11. well-informed person (in a transaction)
  12. logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
  13. ninth vertical line
  14. seam on a helmet
  15. gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
  16. social position; status
  17. along; on (a river, road, etc.)
  18. counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
  19. street (in Osaka)
  20. (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
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