卜問

Chinese

		to divine; foretell; turnip	to ask
trad. (卜問)		卜	問
simp. (卜问)		卜	问
anagram		問卜／问卜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǔwèn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ ㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk¹ man⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǔwèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ ㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǔwùn
    • Wade–Giles: pu³-wên⁴
    • Yale: bǔ-wèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buuwenn
    • Palladius: бувэнь (buvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴⁻²¹ wən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: buk¹ man⁶
    • Yale: būk mahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁷ man⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bug¹ men⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚⁵ mɐn²²/

Verb

卜問

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