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Chinese symbol for “checkers”

国际跳棋
guó jì tiào qí
Traditional: 國際跳棋
checkers (Western board game)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for checkers is 国际跳棋 (guó jì tiào qí), defined as: checkers (Western board game).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

国 guó
country, nation, state; national
radical 31 ⼞ · 8 strokes
际 jì
border, boundary, juncture
radical 170 ⾩ · 7 strokes
跳 tiào
to hop, to skip; to jump, to leap; to vault; to dance
radical 157 ⾜ · 13 strokes
棋 qí
chess; any strategy game
radical 75 ⽊ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “checkers”

WordPinyinMeaning
棋具qí jùcheckers (board and pieces for go 圍棋|围棋 or Chinese chess 象棋 etc)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 国际跳棋.

WordPinyinMeaning
国家 (國家)guó jiācountry; nation; state
国际 (國際)guó jìinternational
全国 (全國)quán guówhole nation; nationwide
国内 (國內)guó nèidomestic; internal (to a country)
我国 (我國)wǒ guómy country; our country
外国 (外國)wài guóforeign country
实际 (實際)shí jìreality; practice
实际上 (實際上)shí jì shàngin fact; in reality
跳舞tiào wǔto dance
围棋 (圍棋)wéi qíthe game of Go

See also: Japanese symbol for “checkers”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.