Te

    Keywords: Go term

Chinese: 手 (shou3)
Japanese: 手 (te)
Korean:

The Japanese word te means move in the go context. It is also found in compounds such as

The on-yomi (Chinese reading) is shu, found in compounds such as

  • shudan - classic name for game of go, "hand talk"
  • akushu - bad move
  • kyoushu? - strong move
  • koushu? - good move
  • myoshu - superb move

In the compounds uwate and shitate (lit. "upper-hand" and "lower-hand"), the reference is to a stronger or weaker player, based on another meaning of te as person. See /discussion.

In everyday Japanese, te means hand.


See also


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