卜卦

Chinese

		to divine; foretell; turnip	divinatory trigram
simp. and trad. (卜卦)		卜	卦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǔguà

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ ㄍㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk¹ gwaa³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): puk-koa

  (Meixian, Guangdong): bug⁵ gua⁴

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pok-kòa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bog⁴ guê³

• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): pu⁶ gua⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǔguà
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ ㄍㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǔguà
    • Wade–Giles: pu³-kua⁴
    • Yale: bǔ-gwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buuguah
    • Palladius: бугуа (bugua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: buk¹ gwaa³
    • Yale: būk gwa
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁷ gwaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bug¹ gua³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚⁵ kʷaː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: puk-koa
    • Hakka Romanization System: bug` gua
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bug⁵ gua⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /puk̚² ku̯a⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: bug⁵ gua⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pʊk̚¹ kua⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Hsinchu, Kinmen, Lukang, Sanxia, Taichung, Tainan, Yilan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pok-kòa
    • Tâi-lô: pok-kuà
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pokkoax
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔk̚³²⁻⁵ kua²¹/
    • IPA (Lukang): /pɔk̚⁵ kua³¹/
    • IPA (Yilan): /pɔk̚²⁻⁵ kua²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Tainan): /pɔk̚³²⁻⁴ kua²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ kua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kinmen): /pɔk̚³²⁻⁵⁴ kua¹²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɔk̚³²⁻⁴ kua¹¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bog⁴ guê³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pok kuè
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pok̚²⁻⁴ kue²¹³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: pu⁶ gua⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu²⁴ ku̯a̠⁴⁵/

Verb

卜卦

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)
• 卜問／卜问 (bǔwèn)
• 占卦 (zhānguà)
• 打卦 (dǎguà)
• 擺卦仔／摆卦仔 (ba̿i-gua̿-ciě) (Northern Min)
• 算卦 (suànguà)
• 跋卦 (Hokkien)

 

Derived terms

• 紙牌卜卦／纸牌卜卦 (zhǐpái bǔguà)