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weiqi

/weɪˈtʃiː/

weiqi 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.

Noun (1)

weiqi (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • 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.[2011, Henry Kissinger, On China, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 103–104
    Synonyms:
    go, baduk

Noun (2) capitalized: Weiqi

Weiqi (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of weiqi.
    • 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 ...2013, Mark Spitznagel, The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 63

Proper noun capitalized: Weiqi

Weiqi

  1. Chinese given name.

Synonyms of weiqi

Forms of weiqi

alternative formWeiqi

Origin of weiqi

Transliteration from Mandarin 圍棋／围棋 (wéiqí, literally “encirclement board game”) via Hanyu Pinyin.

Questions about weiqi

What does weiqi mean?
Weiqi means 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.
What part of speech is weiqi?
Weiqi can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce weiqi?
Weiqi is pronounced /weɪˈtʃiː/.

Words near weiqi in the dictionary

  1. Weinstocks
  2. Weintraub
  3. Weinzierl
  4. Weinzierls
  5. Weippe
  6. weiqi
  7. weir
  8. Weir Views
  9. weirangle
  10. weird
  11. weird and wonderful

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