卦

卦	U+5366, 卦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5366

← 卥
[U+5365]

CJK Unified Ideographs

卧 →
[U+5367]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

KangXi: page 158, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2798
Dae Jaweon: page 362, character 9
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 94, character 5
Unihan data for U+5366

Chinese

simp. and trad.		卦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卦

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Liushutong (compiled in Ming)

Small seal script

Transcribed ancient scripts

**Small seal script**
s02375

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L23863	L23864

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (圭) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
街	kreː, kreː
鞋	ɡreː, ɡreː, *ɡreː
娾	ŋreː, ŋreːʔ
佳	*kreː
鮭	ɡreː, kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
涯	ŋreː, ŋre
崖	ŋreː, ŋre
啀	*ŋreː
厓	*ŋreː
捱	*ŋreː
睚	*ŋreːs
娃	*qreː
洼	qreː, qʷraː, *kʷeː
哇	qreː, qʷraː
胿	ɡeː, kʷeː
溎	*qeːns
觟	*ɡʷraːʔ
黊	ɡʷraːʔ, ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
蘳	ɡʷraːʔ, qʰʷe
蛙	qʷraː, qʷreː
窪	*qʷraː
卦	*kʷreːs
挂	*kʷreːs
掛	*kʷreːs
詿	kʷreːs, ɡʷreːs
罣	kʷreːs, ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
絓	kʰʷreː, ɡʷreːs
鼃	ɢʷreː, qʷreː
圭	*kʷeː
珪	*kʷeː
邽	*kʷeː
閨	*kʷeː
袿	*kʷeː
窐	kʷeː, ɡʷeː
茥	kʷeː, kʰʷeː
桂	*kʷeːs
筀	*kʷeːs
奎	*kʰʷeː
刲	*kʰʷeː
蝰	*kʰʷeː
楏	*kʰʷeː
睳	*qʰʷeː
畦	*ɡʷeː
眭	ɡʷeː, sqʰʷe, qʰʷe, qʰʷi
烓	qʷeː, kʰʷeːŋʔ
跬	*kʰʷeʔ
恚	*qʷes
硅	*qʰʷreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷreːs) : phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː) + semantic 卜.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): guà (gua⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚˋ
(Chengdu, SP): gua⁴
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): gwaa³
(Taishan, Wiktionary): ga¹
Gan (Wiktionary): gua⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): koa
(Meixian, Guangdong): gua⁴
Jin (Wiktionary): gua³
Min Bei (KCR): gua̿
Min Dong (BUC): guá
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): kòa
(Teochew, Peng'im): guê³
Xiang (Wiktionary): gua⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guà
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guà
  - Wade–Giles: kua⁴
  - Yale: gwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guah
  - Palladius: гуа (gua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kwä⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: gua⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: gua
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kua²¹³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwaa³
  - Yale: gwa
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwaa³
  - Guangdong Romanization: gua³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷaː³³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: ga¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka³³/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: gua⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kua³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: koa
  - Hakka Romanization System: gua
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gua⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ku̯a⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: gua⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /kua⁵³/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: gua³
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /kua⁴⁵/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: gua̿
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kua³³/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: guá
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuɑ²¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòa
  - Tâi-lô: kuà
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koax
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kua²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kua⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kua¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: guê³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuè
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kue²¹³/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: gua⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kua̠⁴⁵/

Middle Chinese: /kˠuɛ^H/

Rime
Character	卦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	佳 (32)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古賣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨj^H/
Li Rong	/kuɛ^H/
Wang Li	/kwai^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwai^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwaai³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤre-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*kʷreːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guà
Middle Chinese	‹ kwɛ^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷˁre-s/
English	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	卦
Reading #	1/1
No.	4556
Phonetic component	圭
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	卦
Old Chinese	/*kʷreːs/

Definitions

卦

divinatory trigram or hexagram of the I Ching
卦辭／卦辞 ― guàcí ― hexagram statement in the I Ching
卦限 ― guàxiàn ― octant (eight divisions of a Euclidean three-dimensional coordinate system)
^† to divine
^† to change
^† Alternative form of 掛／挂 (guà).

Compounds

上卦
下卦
互卦
八卦 (bāguà)
八卦山 (Bāguàshān)
卜卦 (bǔguà)
卦候
卦命
卦姑 (guàgū)
卦爻

卦筒
卦象
卦限 (guàxiàn)
打卦 (dǎguà)
易卦 (yìguà)
算卦 (suànguà)
翻卦
占卦 (zhānguà)
內卦／内卦

卦氣／卦气
卦禮／卦礼
卦義／卦义
卦變／卦变
卦辭／卦辞 (guàcí)
紙牌卦／纸牌卦
課卦／课卦
變卦／变卦 (biànguà)
陳卦／陈卦

References

“卦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

卦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: け (ke)
Kan-on: かい (kai)
Kan’yō-on: か (ka)
Kun: うらかた (urakata)

Noun

卦(け) • (ke)

divination symbol or sign

Korean

Hanja

卦 (eum 괘 (gwae))

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Vietnamese

Han character

卦: Hán Nôm readings: quái

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