Etymology

bad aji

Today it means: A lingering weakness in a player’s position in some part of the board, which may trouble them, especially by facilitating a later attack, by hampering their play there or by the effort required to repair it. Full definition →

Japanese 味
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from味
  2. English todaybad aji

From bad and Japanese 味 (aji), or perhaps directly from the Japanese expression 味が悪い (aji ga warui), literally “the flavour is bad”, i.e. “there is bad aji”.

Words from the same roots

Japanese味 all →

aji

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.