将棋倒し

Japanese

Kanji in this term
将	棋	倒
しょう Grade: 6	ぎ Grade: S	たお > だお Grade: S

Etymology

将棋 (shōgi, “Japanese chess”) plus the nominative form of 倒す (taosu, “knock over”). The tao reading for 倒 changes to dao as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

将棋倒し (hiragana しょうぎだおし, rōmaji shōgidaoshi)

falling over one after another, falling like dominoes, going like ninepins
a stampede resulting in injury
standing up shogi pieces in a line and knocking them over