现代围棋专门术语众多，对初学者而言看懂这些词汇可能是种障碍。

了解基本术语有助于初学者进一步学习。

Players of the game of Go often use jargon to describe situations on the board and surrounding the game. Such technical terms are likely to be encountered in books and articles about Go in English as well as other languages. Many of these terms have been borrowed from Japanese, mostly when no short equivalent English term could be found. This page gives an overview of the most important terms.