占卜

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Chinese

		to divine	to divine; foretell; turnip
simp. and trad. (占卜)		占	卜
anagram		卜占

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhānbǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄢㄅㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zim¹ buk¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiam-pok
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsoe-poq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhānbǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄢㄅㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhanbǔ
  - Wade–Giles: chan¹-pu³
  - Yale: jān-bǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: janbuu
  - Palladius: чжаньбу (čžanʹbu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵ pu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zim¹ buk¹
  - Yale: jīm būk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzim¹ buk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: jim¹ bug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːm⁵⁵ pʊk̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiam-pok
  - Tâi-lô: tsiam-pok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciampog
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻²² pɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siam³³ pɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻²² pɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻³³ pɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siam⁴⁴⁻³³ pɔk̚³²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵tsoe-poq
  - MiniDict: tsoe^去 poh
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsoe-poq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sø³³ poʔ⁴⁴/

Verb

占卜

to divine; to practice divination

Synonyms

(Muping Mandarin) 打卦算命

Derived terms

紙牌占卜 (zhǐpái zhānbǔ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
占	卜
せん Grade: S	ぼく Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Etymology

Sinitic. Date of borrowing unknown. Compare modern Chinese 占卜 (zhānbǔ).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) せんぼく (Heiban – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

占(せん)卜(ぼく) • (senboku)

Alternative form of 卜占 (bokusen)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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