Meanings
Noun
1. living; being alive
2. freshness; liveliness; vitality
3. situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go)
4. stet; leave as-is (proofreading)
usually イキ
Prefix
5. damned
Kanji used
activity
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
in a lively way; vividly; freshly; animatedly; actively; energetically
draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh; fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport); killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape
sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape
live bait
fresh-frozen (e.g. fish); quickly frozen