Baduk

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Hangul: 바둑

Baduk (Hangul: 바둑, RR: Baduk, M-R: Paduk) is the Korean name for the game of Go. Alternative spellings are Paduk and Badook. It is pronounced (approximately) "bah-dook" or, in IPA, [pa̠duk̚].[1]

Though the Japanese word "Go" is generally used for the game in English, "baduk" sometimes appears too - for example, Reddit Go Club uses "r/baduk" for its subreddit name. Baduk Club is a website for running Go clubs.

Notes

[1] Source: [ext] 바둑 in English Wiktionary. For sound samples of the pronunciation of the symbols, see [ext] the IPA page in Korean Wiktionary – there /p/ sounds more explosive than /b/, /a/ is long and /u/ is a deep sound roughly as in English who. For a sound sample of the word, listen to [ext] 바둑 and [ext] baduk at forvo.com with headphones or good loudspeakers.

For more details see [ext] Korean phonology in Wikipedia or [ext] Introduction to Korean, in particular the sections [ext] More Consonants and [ext] Three Faces of P.

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