Eye Shape

    Keywords: Life & Death

Chinese: 眼形 (yan3xing2)
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Eye shape is the shape formed by the empty points of an eye. The size and shape of an eye can be crucial to the question of whether a second eye can be formed inside it. A play on the vital point of an eye shape that prevents the formation of a second eye is called a nakade.

Here are some standard eye shapes:

These eye shapes can be alive, dead, unsettled (killable with one move) or killable with more moves. See also


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