すごろく

• バックギャモン

  Backgammon is the Western equivalent of ban-sugoroku, but the rules differ in details such as the starting position and bearing off.

• 絵え双六すごろく

  E-sugoroku specifically refers to the pictorial race game version, often with illustrated themes, as opposed to the older ban-sugoroku.

• 双六すごろく盤ばん

  sugoroku board; ban-sugoroku board

• 盤ばん双六すごろく

  ban-sugoroku; traditional Japanese board game similar to backgammon

• 絵え双六すごろく

  illustrated sugoroku; Japanese picture board game with dice

• すごろくUsage14%

  Usually written in kana; the kanji forms are rare or ateji.

• 双六Usage86%iUsage for this spelling across all readings, not one reading alone.
  • すごろく

    Rare kanji form; the reading すぐろく is obsolete.

  • すぐろく

    out-dated reading
• 雙六すごろくUsage1%
  search-only kanji form

  Search-only kyūjitai form.

• 双陸すごろく
  rarely-used kanji form

  Rarely used kanji form.

• 寿す語ご録ろく
  ateji (phonetic kanji usage)rarely-used kanji form

  Ateji spelling; rarely used.

• スゴロク
  kana-only spelling

  Katakana spelling sometimes used for emphasis or in titles.

• すぐろく
  out-dated reading

Borrowed with the board game from Chinese 双陸, the name of a backgammon-like game. In Japanese the name came to be written 双六, whose 六 reflects the game’s use of dice.