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Translingual
Han character
筮 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹一人人 (HMOO), four-corner 88108, composition ⿱𥫗巫)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 885, character 23
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26070
- Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2972, character 4
- Unihan data for U+7B6E
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 噬
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*djads
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| 筮
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*djads
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| 簭
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*djads
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| 澨
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*djads
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| 遾
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*djads
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Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 竹 (“bamboo”) + 巫 (“shaman”) + 𠬞 (“two hands”) – to divine using yarrow stalks or some kind of tools made of bamboo.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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筮
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ dzyejH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*-s/
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| English
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divine by Achillea stalks
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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筮
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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11658
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Phonetic
component
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筮
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Rime
group
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祭
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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逝
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Old
Chinese
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/*djads/
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Definitions
筮
- to divine using yarrow stalks
- divination (using yarrow stalks)
- divination with stalks of plants
- divining rod
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
筮
(Hyōgai kanji)
- fortunetelling; divination
- divination sticks; fortune stick
Readings
Noun
筮 or 筮 • (medoki or medogi)
- divination sticks, initially made of Lespedeza cuneata stalks, later of bamboo
Korean
Hanja
筮 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)
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Vietnamese
Han character
筮: Hán Nôm readings: vầu, phệ, thệ
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