卦 (guà): divinatory diagram, one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经, one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经
卦 (guà) is a Chinese character meaning “divinatory diagram.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 圭 (phonetic) and 卜 (semantic). It ranks #2808 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 卦 divination. Its radical form 卜 (divination) appears in many related characters such as 占 (zhàn, to observe), 卡 (kǎ, to stop), 卧 (wò, to lie).
Definitions
- divinatory diagram
- one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经
- one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 八卦noun | bā guà | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 |
| 变卦verb | biàn guà | to change one's mind |
| 算卦verb | suàn guà | fortune telling |
| 六十四卦 | liù shí sì guà | the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 |
| 八卦山proper-noun | bā guà shān | Bagua Mountain, Taiwan |
| 八卦掌noun | bā guà zhǎng | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) |
| 八卦阵 | bā guà zhèn | eight-trigram battle array |
| 打卦verb | dǎ guà | to tell sb's fortune using divinatory trigrams |
| 卦义 | guà yì | interpretation of the divinatory trigrams |
| 八卦拳 | bā guà quán | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) |
| 卦辞noun | guà cí | to interpret the divinatory trigrams |
| 卜卦verb | bǔ guà | to divine using the eight trigrams |
卦 appears in 12 compound words: 17 as the first character, 50 as the last, and 33 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 卦 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
卦字由8笔画组成，结构很巧妙。
guà zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character "卦" consists of eight strokes and has a very ingenious structure.
形意拳与少林、太极、八卦并称为中国四大名拳。
xíng yì quán yǔ shǎo lín , tài jí , bā guà bìng chèn wéi zhōng guó sì dà míng quán .
Xingyi Quan is considered one of the four great Chinese martial arts, along with Shaolin, Tai Chi, and Bagua.
这句话，在八卦楼斑驳的穹顶下，魏琬苎已经说了千遍万遍。
zhè jù huà , zài bā guà lóu bān bó de qióng dǐng xià , wèi 琬 苎 yǐ jīng shuō le qiān biàn wàn biàn .
Under the mottled dome of the Gossip Pavilion, Wei Wan Zhu had repeated those words a thousand times over.
彰化社头护天宫自行车驿站动工 打造八卦山新亮点
zhāng huà shè tóu hù tiān gōng zì háng chē 驿 zhàn dòng gōng dǎ zào bā guà shān xīn liàng diǎn
Groundbreaking Ceremony Held for the Hutian Temple Bike Station in Shetou, Changhua; Set to Become a New Highlight of Bagua Mountain
马办风暴!他喊非八卦:牵涉国共管道内幕
mǎ bàn fēng bào ! tā hǎn fēi bā guà : qiān shè guó gòng guǎn dào nèi mù
Storm at Ma's Office! He Insists It's Not Gossip: Involves Inside Information on KMT-CCP Channels
Character Family
Homophones — Characters pronounced guà
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