卦

Translingual

Han character

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

1. fortune telling
2. tell fortunes
3. divinatory archetype

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

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simp. and trad.		卦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guà (gua⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaa³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guà
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: kua⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guah
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯a̠⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaa³
    • Yale: gwa
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaa³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɑː³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (卦, reconstructed)
Character (卦), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 佳 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古賣切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣuɛH/	/kwaiH/	/kuɛH/	/kʷɯæH/	/kwaɨjH/	/kwaiH/	/kuæiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (卦, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
卦								guà								‹ kwɛH ›								/*[k]ʷˤre-s/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
卦					4556					圭					支					0					卦					/*kʷreːs/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

卦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: か (ka), け (ke)
• Kun: うらかた (urakata)

Noun

卦 (hiragana け, romaji 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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