Memory phrase for the character: 卦

卦

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Meaning

8th divinatory trigram

Pronunciation

guà

Explanation

 Left: 圭 (twice earth 土, here: part of way/street 街, where you walk over piled earth.), right: fortune telling 卜 (crack in a turtle's shell used for divining, sometimes also: forking of a way)

Mnemonic
 
For the way's forking you use in fortune telling: the divinatory trigram.

Radicals

圭 piled earthTwo times earth 土 on top of each other stands for piled-up earth. (Standing alone it has the meaning: jade sceptre)
卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.




 Vocabulary

变卦 biàn guà  to change one's mind; to go turncoat on; to go back on one's word; to break an agreement
算卦 suàn guà  fortune telling
炼丹八卦炉 liàn dān bā guà lú  eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art; Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble
炼丹八卦炉 liàn dān bā guà lú  

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