りゅうおう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of りゅうおう – see the following entry.

[noun] (shogi) a promoted 飛車 (hisha, “flying chariot”), having a move corresponding to both rook and king in Western chess

[noun] (shogi) one of the eight major titles of professional shogi, conferred to the winner of a 竜王戦 (ryūō-sen, “dragon king match”)

[proper noun] a placename, especially of a town in the district of either Nakakoma in central Yamanashi prefecture or Gamō in south Shiga prefecture

(This term, りゅうおう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

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