卦 guà
guà
noun
divinatory symbol; hexagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: One of the divinatory symbols in the Book of Changes 易经, inlcuding the 64 hexagrams 六十四卦 and the 8 trigrams 八卦 (Guoyu '卦'; Yao 2000, p. 58)
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- 占口卦 to foretell based on what one hears
- 炼丹八卦炉(煉丹八卦爐) eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art
- 变卦(變卦) to change one's mind; to go back on one's word
- 八卦阵(八卦陣) eight-trigram battle array
- 八卦掌 baguazhang
- 八卦 the eight divinatory trigrams ; gossip ; idle chat
- 打卦 to tell somebody's fortune using divinatory trigrams
- 六十四卦 sixty four hexagrams
- 八卦拳 baguazhang
- 卦义(卦義) interpretation of the divinatory trigrams
- 占卦 to divine using trigrams
- 卜卦 to divine using the trigrams; fortune telling
- 陈卦(陳卦) to foretell
- 算卦 fortune telling
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- 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 22
- 卷二十七上 志第十七上 曆三上 Volume 27a Treatises 18: Calendar 3a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 19
- 第二回 Chapter 102 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 卷七十四 志第二十七 律曆七 Volume 74 Treatises 27: Measures and Calendar 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 13
- 卷七十二 列傳第四十二 郭璞 葛洪 Volume 72 Biographies 42: Guo Pu; Ge Hong Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 13
- 卷七十九 志第三十二 律曆十二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Measures and Calendar 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 13
- 卷七十七 志第三十 律曆十 Volume 77 Treatises 30: Measures and Calendar 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 13
- 卷107下 律曆志三下 Volume 107b Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 12
- 卷六十八 志第二十一 律曆一 Volume 68 Treatises 21: Measures and Calendar 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 12
- 卷107上 律曆志三上 Volume 107a Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 12
Collocations
- 卦曰 (卦曰) 易金火相革之卦曰 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十一 律曆志 Volume 21: Treatise on Rhythm and the Calendar — count: 16
- 卦六 (卦六) 易卦六子之尊氣 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十五下 郊祀志 Volume 25b: Treatise on Sacrifices 2 — count: 8
- 卦上 (卦上) 中孚卦上九爻辭也 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 5
- 说卦 (說卦) 說卦 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孔子世家》 House of Confucius — count: 5
- 丰卦 (豐卦) 易豐卦曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十六 鄭范陳賈張列傳 Volume 36: Biographies of Zheng, Fan, Chen, Jia, Zhang — count: 4
- 易卦 (易卦) 在易卦 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 卦九 (卦九) 大過卦九五爻辭也 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 4
- 卦兆 (卦兆) 指龟兆和卦兆 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 4
- 卦艮 (卦艮) 易蹇卦艮下坎上 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十三 朱樂何列傳 Volume 43: Biographies of Zhu, Yue, He — count: 3
- 屯卦 (屯卦) 易屯卦震下坎上 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷一上 光武帝紀 Volume 1a: Annals of Emperor Guangwu — count: 3