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占卦
zhān​guà

to divine using trigrams

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 占 zhān nounverb
    to divine
    (bound form) To practice divination or observe omens to predict the future, as in 占卜 zhān​bǔ
  2. 卦 guà noun
    divinatory symbols
    The symbolic diagrams used in ancient fortune-telling, specifically the eight trigrams or sixty-four hexagrams of the 易经 yì​jīng
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