Go

English

noun

Definitions

An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea, played with 181 black stones and 180 white ones, typically on a board of 19 × 19 squares.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 碁.

Origin

Japanese

碁

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

goroutine English
routine English
go Finnish
go Hungarian
go Italian
go Dutch, Flemish
go French
го Russian
go Portuguese
碁 Japanese
go Czech
go Indonesian
גו Hebrew (modern)
圍棋 Chinese