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卦

guà

fortune telling

Phonosemantic compound. 卜 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.

Components
圭 sound component

圭  Sound component

guī

  

jade pointed at top

卜 meaning component

卜  Meaning component

bo, bǔ

  

fortune telling

Evolution

卦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
卦 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
卦 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
卦 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
卦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

卦  

guà

fortune telling; tell fortunes; divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yì​jīng]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yì​jīng]

Most common words with 卦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

八卦

gossip

卦

divinatory diagram

变卦

to change one's mind

算卦

fortune telling

八卦阵

eight-trigram battle array

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

掛 褂

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤre-s

kweaH

guà

prognosticate with Achillea


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.5331% of movies

2356th most common character in movies

3119th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5366

Shuowen

“卦，筮也。从卜，圭聲。”


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