weiqi
/weɪˈtʃiː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
name
Example Sentences
- "Mao was determined to prevent encirclement by any power or combination of powers, regardless of ideology, that he perceived as securing too many wei qi “stones’’ surrounding China, by disrupting their calculations."
- "Figure 3.1 Shi (Black) versus Li (White) on the Weiqi Board black will appear to have captured no territory at all and, indeed, at the end of this sequence has scored no sure points; white, though, has 30 unassailable points, which seems to ..."
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