chess

Evolution

棊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
棊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

chess; any game similar to chess

() 

variant of [qí]

Most common words with 棊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

chess

围棋

the game of Go

下棋

to play chess

棋子

chess piece

象棋

Chinese chess

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1257% of movies

2201st most common character in movies

2089th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+68CA

Shuowen

“棊,博棊。从木,其聲。”


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