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灼骨
zhuó​gǔ

to heat oracle bones

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灼骨 zhuó//gǔ
to heat oracle bones
(literary) to apply heat to a tortoise shell or animal bone for the purpose of divination; an ancient method of predicting the future by reading the cracks formed by fire