shogi
/ˈʃoʊɡiː/
shogi noun: japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Japan.
Noun
shogi (uncountable)
- Japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Japan.
- But to the surprise of many in the chess fraternity, Hassabis also began to compete in other mind games: bridge and backgammon, Diplomacy and draughts, as well as the Japanese chess variant shogi.2026, Sebastian Mallaby, chapter 1, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- Japanese chess
shogi meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Arabic and Indonesian
shogi in Hindi
- variant of chess
- शोगी śogī
shogi in Urdu
- شوگى
shogi in Arabic
- variant of chess
- شُوغِي šūḡī
shogi in Indonesian
- variant of chess
- sogi
More languagesFewer languages
- shogi in Vietnamese
- cờ tướng Nhật Bản
Synonyms of shogi
Origin of shogi
From Japanese 将棋 (shōgi). Doublet of janggi.
Words formed from shogi
- chu shogi
- hexshogi
- Kyoto shogi
- okisaki shogi
- tori shogi
- trishogi
- tsume shogi
- yari shogi
Words that rhyme with shogi
Questions about shogi
- What does shogi mean?
- Shogi means japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Japan.
- What is shogi in Hindi?
- Shogi in Hindi is शोगी (śogī). See Shogi meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is shogi?
- Shogi is a noun.
- How do you pronounce shogi?
- Shogi is pronounced /ˈʃoʊɡiː/.
Words near shogi in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shogi (page history and authors); shogi (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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