占卜

Chinese

		to divine	to divine; foretell; turnip
simp. and trad. (占卜)		占	卜
anagram		卜占

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhānbǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢ ㄅㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹ buk¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiam-pok
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsoe-poq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhānbǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢ ㄅㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhanbǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chan¹-pu³
    • Yale: jān-bǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: janbuu
    • Palladius: чжаньбу (čžanʹbu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵ pu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zim¹ buk¹
    • Yale: jīm būk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹ buk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: jim¹ bug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵ pʊk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam-pok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiam-pok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciampog
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻²² pɔk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam³³ pɔk̚⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻²² pɔk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻³³ pɔk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻³³ pɔk̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsoe-poq
    • MiniDict: tsoe^去 poh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsoe-poq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø³³ poʔ⁴⁴/

Verb

占卜

1. to divine; to practice divination

Synonyms

• (Muping Mandarin) 打卦算命

Derived terms

• 紙牌占卜 (zhǐpái zhānbǔ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
占	卜
せん Grade: S	ぼく Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Etymology

Sinitic. Date of borrowing unknown. Compare modern Chinese 占卜 (zhānbǔ).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せんぼく [sèńbókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞mbo̞kɯ̟]

Noun

占(せん)卜(ぼく) • (senboku) 

1. alternative form of 卜占 (bokusen)

References

• “占^▲卜”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026