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
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): pok-kòa
(Teochew, Peng'im): bog⁴ guê³
Xiang (Wiktionary): pu⁶ gua⁴

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): /pu²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ kwä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - 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/
Min Nan
- (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 kua̠⁴⁵/

Verb

卜卦

to tell someone's fortune; to divine (usually using the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes)

Synonyms

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做卦 (Min Bei)
打卦 (dǎguà)
算卦 (suànguà)
跋卦 (Min Nan)

占卦 (zhānguà)
卜問／卜问 (bǔwèn)
擺卦仔／摆卦仔 (Min Bei)

Derived terms

紙牌卜卦／纸牌卜卦 (zhǐpái bǔguà)