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棋

qí

Definition

chess
chess-like game
chinese chess
a game of chess
chess piece

Character Decomposition

Related words (26)

checkers (board and pieces for go 圍棋|围棋 or Chinese chess 象棋 etc)

chess piece; piece (in a board game); pawn

chess player

chess champion

chessboard

chess skill

kifu (record of a game of go or shogi)

chess game

qí gé zhuàng

checkered pattern; chessboard

qí féng duì shǒu

to be evenly matched; to meet one's match

qí féng dí shǒu

see 棋逢对手

qín qí shū huà

the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting); lute-playing, chess, calligraphy and painting (artistic accomplishments expected of scholars of letters); (the) accomplishments (of a well-educated person); accomplishments of a scholar of the old school (lute-playing, chess, calligraphy, and painting)

to play chess

land battle chess

draw or tie in chess etc

the game of Go

abbr. for 國際象棋|国际象棋, chess

to withdraw a move (chess)

dead piece (in Chess); stupid move; hopeless case

to play chess

blunder (in chess)

five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe); Japanese: gomoku; gobang

shuāng lù qí

backgammon

chess

guó jì xiàng qí

chess

guó jì tiào qí

checkers (Western board game)

Idioms (3)

qí gāo yī zhāo

to be a step ahead of the opponent (idiom); to outsmart one's opponent

jǔ qí bù dìng

to hesitate over what move to make (idiom); to waver; to shilly-shally

xīng luó qí bù

scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place

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