卜問

Chinese

		to divine; foretell; turnip	to ask
trad. (卜問)		卜	問
simp. (卜问)		卜	问
anagram		問卜／问卜

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bǔwèn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ ㄨㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): buk¹ man⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bǔwèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ ㄨㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bǔwùn
  - Wade–Giles: pu³-wên⁴
  - Yale: bǔ-wèn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buuwenn
  - Palladius: бувэнь (buvɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴⁻²¹ wən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: buk¹ man⁶
  - Yale: būk mahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁷ man⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bug¹ men⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚⁵ mɐn²²/

Verb

卜問

to tell someone's fortune; to divine (usually using the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes)

Synonyms

做卦 (ca̿-gua̿) (Northern Min)
卜卦 (bǔguà)
占卦 (zhānguà)
打卦 (dǎguà)
擺卦仔／摆卦仔 (ba̿i-gua̿-ciě) (Northern Min)
算卦 (suànguà)
跋卦 (Hokkien)

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