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Do they actually refer to them as stones? Maybe they call them something like game pieces. My wife always has trouble translating that, I'm not sure why.

I believe they refer to individual stones as "qi2 zi". Most of the terms on Sensei's Library for group (live group, dead group) use the word ...

I'm trying to learn go terms in Mandarin Chinese. The Sensei's Library page m is very helpful for this goal, but there are some simple words that I cannot find there or elsewhere online. Could someone please help out?

I would like to know how to refer to:
1) a stone
2) a string (a strictly ...