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八卦
bāguà
Main
English Definitionthe eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; gossip; gossipy
Simplified Script八卦
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyinbāguà
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)
Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄅㄚ ㄍㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping)baat3gwaa3
Part of Speech(名) noun
Topical Word Lists
Owner of religion/mysticism/trigrams
Proficiency Test LevelHSK.v3=7 TOCFL=7
Word Decomposition
eight; 8
guàdivinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易经

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Words With Same Head Word    
八字bāzìthe character 8 or ; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
八月bāyuèAugust; eighth month (of the lunar year)
八成bāchéngeighty percent; most probably; most likely
八路军bā lù jūnEighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
八角bājiǎoanise; star anise; aniseed; octagonal; Fructus Anisi stellati
Words With Same Tail Word    
变卦biànguàto change one's mind; to go back on one's word
算卦suànguàfortune telling
卜卦bǔguàto divine using the trigrams; fortune telling
占卦zhānguàChinese fortune telling; to foresee, to predict
打卦dǎguàto tell somebody's fortune using divinatory trigrams
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