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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

棋盘

qípán

chessboard

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

chessboard

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 棋盘 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 棋盘 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我在棋盘上把一个棋子向前移动一步。wǒ zài qí pán shàng bǎ yí gè qí zi xiàng qián yí dòng yī bù。

I moved a chess piece on the board one forward.

孩子们下围棋,会使用5x5或者7x7的棋盘。hái zi men xià wéi qí, huì shǐ yòng 5x5 huò zhě 7x7 de qí pán。

When children play Go, they use a 5-by-5 or 7-by-7 board.

围棋使用十九路棋盘,共 361 颗棋子 (181 颗黑子与 180 颗白子)。wéi qí shǐ yòng shí jiǔ lù qí pán, gòng 361 kē qí zi (181 kē hēi zi yǔ 180 kē bái zi )。

On a 19x19 lines board, Go is played with 361 stones (181 black and 180 white).

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 棋盘.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 棋盘.

Directly before

  • 在棋盘2
  • 的棋盘1
  • 十九路棋盘1

Directly after

  • 棋盘上1
  • 棋盘的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 棋盘

What does 棋盘 mean in Chinese?

棋盘 (qípán) means chessboard.

How do you pronounce 棋盘?

棋盘 is pronounced qípán.

Is 棋盘 an HSK word?

棋盘 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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