下駄

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • geta: a kind of wooden clog with at least one, more commonly two, stilts or “teeth”
  • the geta symbol, 〓 (〓) (Unicode value 3013): a typographic mark indicating unavailability of a glyph, such as when a character cannot be displayed on a computer; so called for the similarity to a geta clog footprint
  • (go) a stone placed not adjacent to the opponent's stone, but in such a way as to block the opponent's formation from escaping

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 下 (lower, down, under, below, bottom, nether-, under-, beneath, lower stream, last, low) + Japanese 駄 (bad, low-quality, footwear, loading, carrying, poor).

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Japanese

Gloss

bad, low-quality, footwear, loading, carrying, poor

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