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Chinese symbol for “divination”

卜筮
bǔ shì
divination

The closest CC-CEDICT match for divination is 卜筮 (bǔ shì), defined as: divination.

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Characters and stroke order

卜 bǔ
divination, fortune-telling; prophecy
radical 25 ⼘ · 2 strokes
筮 shì
divination using the stalks of plants; divining rod
radical 118 ⽵ · 13 strokes

Other Chinese words for “divination”

WordPinyinMeaning
命理学 (命理學)mìng lǐ xuédivination; divinatory art

Related words

Other words that share a character with 卜筮.

WordPinyinMeaning
胡萝卜 (胡蘿蔔)hú luó bocarrot
萝卜 (蘿蔔)luó boradish (Raphanus sativus), esp. daikon; measure word: 根 (gēn)
占卜zhān bǔto divine
胡萝卜素 (胡蘿蔔素)hú luó bo sùcarotene
未卜wèi bǔ(literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable
红萝卜 (紅蘿蔔)hóng luó bocarrot; red radish

See also: Japanese symbol for “divination”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.