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trigram

HSK 7
guà
カ、カイ、ケ
うらかた
Phonosemantic compound. 卜 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.
Components
Phonetic component
guī jade pointed at top
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Meaning component
bo divination
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luó​bo]
Notes
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Regular
Modern
Chinese
[guà]
divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yì​jīng]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yì​jīng]
Japanese
同音
noun divination sign
Korean
[卦]
Noun
trigram from the Book of Changes; The sixty-four characters in Oriental philosophy which symbolize yin and yang in the form of harmonized lines.; divination; A sign resulting from telling one’s fortune.
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