Petri wrote on Fri, Nov 18, 2005 11:18 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
Dear Nate, John. Jewelled general is in my opinion the most correct
traslation of shogi king.
The upper symbol 'kanji' in shogi king means jewel or ball. What kind of
jewel it is is defined by adding other symbols before it.
here is a link where you can look by yourself:
But what should shock you is that knight is not honorable horse but a
'cinnamon tree-horse' and lance is 'perfume-chariot'. names probably
chosen by phonetic reasons rather than those of meaning
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=7389
But what should shock you is that knight is not honorable horse but a 'cinnamon tree-horse' and lance is 'perfume-chariot'. names probably chosen by phonetic reasons rather than those of meaning