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ko

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈkəʊ//

A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape.

noun

  1. 1

    A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape.

    Black gets an easy game by just filling the ko.

  2. 2

    ko fight

    Black wins the ko easily.

  3. 3

    a stone in a ko in atari, a ko stone

    Black recaptures the ko and white has to find another ko threat.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).