卦

卦 U+5366, 卦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5366 ← 卥 [U+5365] CJK Unified Ideographs 卧 → [U+5367]

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Translingual

Han character

卦 (radical 25, 卜+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土土卜 (GGY), four-corner 4310₀, composition ⿰圭卜)

References

• KangXi: page 158, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2798
• Dae Jaweon: page 362, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 94, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5366

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		卦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卦
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (圭) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
街	*kreː, *kreː
鞋	*ɡreː, *ɡreː, *ɡreː
娾	*ŋreː, *ŋreːʔ
佳	*kreː
鮭	*ɡreː, *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
涯	*ŋreː, *ŋre
崖	*ŋreː, *ŋre
啀	*ŋreː
厓	*ŋreː
捱	*ŋreː
睚	*ŋreːs
娃	*qreː
洼	*qreː, *qʷraː, *kʷeː
哇	*qreː, *qʷraː
胿	*ɡeː, *kʷeː
溎	*qeːns
觟	*ɡʷraːʔ
黊	*ɡʷraːʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
蘳	*ɡʷraːʔ, *qʰʷe
蛙	*qʷraː, *qʷreː
窪	*qʷraː
卦	*kʷreːs
挂	*kʷreːs
掛	*kʷreːs
詿	*kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs
罣	*kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
絓	*kʰʷreː, *ɡʷreːs
鼃	*ɢʷreː, *qʷreː
圭	*kʷeː
珪	*kʷeː
邽	*kʷeː
閨	*kʷeː
袿	*kʷeː
窐	*kʷeː, *ɡʷeː
茥	*kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
桂	*kʷeːs
筀	*kʷeːs
奎	*kʰʷeː
刲	*kʰʷeː
蝰	*kʰʷeː
楏	*kʰʷeː
睳	*qʰʷeː
畦	*ɡʷeː
眭	*ɡʷeː, *sqʰʷe, *qʰʷe, *qʰʷi
烓	*qʷeː, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
跬	*kʰʷeʔ
恚	*qʷes
硅	*qʰʷreɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guà (gua⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaa³
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): kòa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): guê³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: guà
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚˋ
    • Wade–Giles: kua⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guah
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guà
    • IPA ^(key): /kwä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaa³
    • Yale: gwa
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gua³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷäː³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòa
    • Tâi-lô: kuà
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kua²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kua¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: guê³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuè
    • IPA ^(key): /kue²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠuɛ^H/▼

Rime
Character	卦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	佳 (32)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古賣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨjH/
Li Rong	/kuɛH/
Wang Li	/kwaiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwaiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guà

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤre-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷreːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guà
Middle Chinese	‹ kwɛH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷˁre-s/
English	prognosticate with Achillea
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卦
Reading #	1/1
No.	4556
Phonetic component	圭
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	卦
Old Chinese	/*kʷreːs/

Definitions

卦

1. divinatory trigram of the I Ching
2. ^† to divine
3. ^† to change
4. ^† Alternative form of 掛／挂 (guà).

Compounds

• 上卦
• 下卦
• 互卦
• 內卦／内卦
• 八卦 (bāguà)
• 八卦山 (Bāguàshān)
• 卜卦 (bǔguà)
• 占卦 (zhānguà)
• 卦候

• 卦命
• 卦姑 (guàgū)
• 卦氣／卦气
• 卦爻
• 卦禮／卦礼
• 卦筒
• 卦義／卦义
• 卦變／卦变
• 卦辭／卦辞 (guàcí)

• 卦限 (guàxiàn)
• 打卦 (dǎguà)
• 算卦 (suànguà)
• 紙牌卦／纸牌卦
• 翻卦
• 課卦／课卦
• 變卦／变卦 (biànguà)
• 陳卦／陈卦

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Japanese

Kanji

卦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: かい (kai)
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka)
• Kun: うらかた (urakata)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
卦
け Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

卦 (hiragana け, rōmaji ke)

1. divination symbol or sign

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Korean

Hanja

卦 • (gwae) (hangeul 괘, revised gwae, McCune–Reischauer kwae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卦 (quái)

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