げた

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of げた – see the following entry.

【下駄】 [noun] geta: a kind of wooden clog with at least one, more commonly two, stilts or “teeth” [noun] the geta symbol, 〓 (Unicode value 3013): a typographic mark indicating unavailability of a glyph, such as when a character cannot be displayed on a computer; so called for the similarity to a geta clog footprint [noun] (go) a stone placed not adjacent to the opponent's stone, but in such a way as to block the opponent's formation from escaping

(This term, げた, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)