占卦

Chinese

		to divine	divinatory trigram
simp. and trad. (占卦)		占	卦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhānguà

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ ㄍㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹ gwaa³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhānguà
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ ㄍㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhanguà
    • Wade–Giles: chan¹-kua⁴
    • Yale: jān-gwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: janguah
    • Palladius: чжаньгуа (čžanʹgua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵ ku̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zim¹ gwaa³
    • Yale: jīm gwa
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹ gwaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim¹ gua³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵ kʷaː³³/

Verb

占卦

1. to tell someone's fortune; to divine (usually using the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes)

Synonyms

• 做卦 (ca̿-gua̿) (Northern Min)
• 卜卦 (bǔguà)
• 卜問／卜问 (bǔwèn)
• 打卦 (dǎguà)
• 擺卦仔／摆卦仔 (ba̿i-gua̿-ciě) (Northern Min)
• 算卦 (suànguà)
• 跋卦 (Hokkien)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (占卦):

• → Korean: 점괘(占卦) (jeomgwae)