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Names for Go in Other Languages
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- Chinese
- Weiqi (圍棋, simplified 围棋 = "surrounding boardgame")
- Korean
- Baduk (Korean = "pebble boardgame"),
- Japanese
- Igo (囲碁, pronounced いご with a short "I" = "surrounding boardgame")
- Japanese formal name
- Ki (棋)
- international
- Goe (spelling introduced by Mr. Ing Chang-ki)
HolIgor: Russians use sometimes the term Oblavnye shashki which would translate as the encircling (or hunting) checkers.
RafaelCaetano: Why is the Japanese formal name "ki"? This is used in compounds like "Nihon Kiin" and "kishi" but it means roughly "board game", not specifically "go".
- Zarlan: Isn't it actualy Kidou? Although it can be used to refer to both chess and Go, and perhaps more games, it is a name for Go. I have never heard of Ki, but I have heard of Kidou (commonly written Kido).
- Andrew Grant: "Kido" just means "the way of Ki". "Ki" is sometimes used as a formal name for go, though it isn't very common. But "Kisei", for instance, is literally "Ki sage". However "Ki" is too general, as it can refer to other board games as well. "Shogi" (Japanese chess) is "general's Ki", for instance. (The sound change from "ki" to "gi" in this case is just a feature of how Japanese words combine). It's also the "ki" in "kifu".
- John F. Agreed, except that ki is VERY common - possibly more so than go, though this is one thing I haven't formally counted. Ki appears in a host of compounds, such as kishi, kiri, kifu, kifuu, kikaku, kike, kidou, kisei. One I like is kihaku: a go earl (i.e. a high dan player).
- The point being missed, though, is that go is used on its own and in a few compounds. Ki (or gi) is never used on its own and is the nornal compound form (free and bound forms in linguistic terminology).
Zarlan: The international name for Go is Go. Goe is not very common and is almost only used when talking about Go with the Ing rules.
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