占卦

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhānguà

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄢㄍㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹ gwaa³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhānguà
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄢㄍㄨㄚˋ
  - 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

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)

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