guà HSK7

fortune telling

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Sound component
guī jade pointed at top
Meaning component
bo fortune telling

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkweaH[k]ʷˤre-s prognosticate with Achillea

說文解字

《說文》:“卦,筮也。从卜,圭聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica