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Go Terms
    Keywords: Go term

A glossary of Go terms.

See also: Essential Go Terms, English Go Terms, Chinese Go Terms, Korean Go Terms; Japanese Go Terms, Japanese Go Terms Discussion, Japanese terms - overused and underused, Anatomical terms, Wildlife terms, Participle survey, Terms in Dutch Go Magazine, Esperanto terms and Go Terms Used For Go Equipment.


A [ext] Japanese/English translation page is available here (mostly in Japanese). If your browser supports it, you can see the Kanji for the terms, making it useful for attempting to study Japanese language go books.

A very comprehensive glossary on the web is [ext] Mehmet Dardeniz's site in - Michael H.Lester's Go Page.

The French Go club de Versailles has a very comprehensive list [ext] Japanese/French

Another one is on [ext] Ken Warkentyne's site. It looks like it's not been touched lately, but what's there is still good. Well, if they don't touch it, and we can't touch it, let's merge it!

Others (in English):

Useful resource (not related to Go):
[ext] Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary Server ([ext] canada mirror, [ext] usa mirror)


Scartol: How do we feel about adding pronunciation for these terms? The English teacher in me would love to see them. eg: hane (han-ay) [1]

SAS: It's difficult to represent the pronunciations clearly (as your example shows). It may be better just to point people where they can [ext] hear the terms spoken.
Bill: Actually, pronouncing go terms like Spanish is close to the mark. The vowels are typically short.
  • a -> ah
  • i -> ee (but shorter in length)
  • u -> oo (as in book)
  • e -> eh
  • o -> oh (but shorter in length)

The length of a Japanese syllable is about 1/4 sec.

Example: hane (hah - neh)


[1] I'm creating a page at JapaneseGoPronunciations with some guidelines to pronunciation of go terms. Hane is actually pronounced with a short 'eh' sound rather than as 'ay' as you can read on that page. :) --ElDraco



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