Illustration: In a Japanese home's tatami room, a thick wooden go board stands between a grandfather and his grandchild. Its nineteen-by-nineteen grid is clearly visible, with black and white stones placed on intersections in an unfinished game. Open wooden stone bowls sit beside the players.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

碁ご盤ばん

goban

Go board

Example sentences

  1. また碁盤ごばん・将棋盤しょうぎばんの位置見当いちけんとうのための黒点こくてんも「星ほし」と呼よばれている。

    The black point for positioning on a Go board and Shogi board is also called 'hoshi.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 儀式ぎしきでは袴はかまを着用ちゃくようした子こが碁盤ごばんに上あがり、飛とび降おりるのが慣ならわしである。

    In the ceremony, it is customary for the child in the hakama to step on a go board and then jump down from it.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. その後ごも物外ものがいは拳骨げんこつの痕あとのついた碁盤ごばんを何枚なんまいか残のこしている。

    Later, as well, Motsugai left some Go boards with the imprints of his fist.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 碁盤

  • 碁GoOnゴ
  • 盤tray; shallow bowlOnバン

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