Chinese symbol for “chessboard”
棋盘
qí pán
Traditional: 棋盤
chessboard
The closest CC-CEDICT match for chessboard is 棋盘 (qí pán), defined as: chessboard.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “chessboard”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棋格状 (棋格狀) | qí gé zhuàng | checkered pattern; chessboard |
| 棋局 | qí jú | state of play in a game of chess; (old) chessboard |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 棋盘.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 围棋 (圍棋) | wéi qí | the game of Go |
| 棋子 | qí zǐ | chess piece; 个 (gè),颗 (kē) |
| 象棋 | xiàng qí | Chinese chess; measure word: 副 (fù) |
| 下棋 | xià qí | to play chess |
| 棋手 | qí shǒu | chess player |
| 键盘 (鍵盤) | jiàn pán | keyboard |
| 地盘 (地盤) | dì pán | domain; territory under one's control |
| 硬盘 (硬盤) | yìng pán | hard disk |
See also: Japanese symbol for “chessboard”.
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.