Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 卦
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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
| About the way with a forking, there is the: divinatory trigram. |
Radicals
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圭
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piled earth | (As character with the meaning: jade tablet) |
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卜
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oracle, mysticism | (This 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.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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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 |
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