jmdict 1419240 Active (id#2343045)
団子 [news2,nf28]
【 だんご [news2,nf28] ； ダンゴ (nokanji) 】
  1. [n] {food, cooking}
    • dango
    • dumpling (usu. sweet)
    • doughboy
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 2871128 お団子【おだんご】 1. dango; rice dumpling
    • ⇐ see: 2846031 三色団子【さんしょくだんご】 1. tricolor dango eaten during cherry blossom viewing (esp. pink, white, and green)
    • ⇐ see: 2828369 いしいし 1. dumpling
    • ⇐ see: 2847141 坊ちゃん団子【ぼっちゃんだんご】 1. Botchan dango; tricolor dango on a skewer (matcha, egg yolk, and red bean paste)
    • ⇐ see: 2846012 花見団子【はなみだんご】 1. dango eaten during cherry blossom viewing (esp. pink, white, and green)
    • ⇐ see: 2840705 串団子【くしだんご】 1. skewered dango
  2. [n]
    • ball-shaped object
    • something round
  3. [n]
    • lump
    • group
    • bunch
    • knot
    • tight crowd
  4. [n] {go (game)}
    • dango
    • [expl] inefficient clump of stones
History:
    • A 2025-06-30 04:31:40 Syed Raza (id#2343045)
    • Comments
      Trimming.
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      @@ -42 +42 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">inefficient clump of stones with few liberties and no eyes considered bad shape</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">inefficient clump of stones</gloss>
    • A* 2025-06-27 18:07:28 Adrian Grana (id#2342945)
    • Refs
      精選版　日本国語大辞典
 だん‐ご【団子】
〘名〙

⑤ 囲碁で、一方の石が一か所に凝集させられて、働きのない形。絞られた場合などによくできるまずい形。
語誌

https://www.ntkr.co.jp/igoyogo/yogo_573.html
https://senseis.xmp.net/?Dango
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      @@ -36,0 +37,6 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&go;</field>
+<gloss>dango</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">inefficient clump of stones with few liberties and no eyes considered bad shape</gloss>
    • A 2022-05-26 05:48:34 Jim Breen
    • A* 2022-05-26 01:42:08 Stephen Kraus
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      @@ -19,0 +20 @@
+<field>&food;</field>
    • A* 2022-05-26 01:40:38 Stephen Kraus
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      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
1,766,279	 59.4%	団子
  937,526	 31.5%	だんご
  267,922	  9.0%	ダンゴ
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      @@ -12,0 +13,4 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ダンゴ</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
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