"form of divination" Chinese-English Dictionary

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běn (bound form) root / stem / (bound form) origin / source / (bound form) one's own / this / (bound form) this / the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally / initially / capital / principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc syn
cóng from / through / via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor syn
(bound form) machine / mechanism / (bound form) aircraft / (bound form) an opportunity / (bound form) crucial point / pivot / (bound form) quick-witted / flexible / (bound form) organic syn
zhuàng (bound form) form / appearance / shape / (bound form) state / condition / (bound form) to describe / (bound form) written complaint / lawsuit / (bound form) certificate syn
卜宅 bǔ zhái to choose a capital by divination / to choose a home / to choose one's burial place by divination
枚卜 méi bǔ to choose officials by divination (archaic) / to practice divination without a definite question
掷筊 擲筊 zhì jiǎo poe divination, a traditional Chinese divination method where a pair of crescent-shaped wooden or bamboo blocks is thrown on the ground, with the positions of the blocks determining the divine answer
zhěng (bound form) whole / complete / entire / (before a measure word) whole / (before or after number + measure word) exactly / (bound form) in good order / tidy / neat / (bound form) to put in order / to straighten / (bound form) to repair / to mend / to renovate / (coll.) to fix sb / to give sb a hard time / to mess with sb / (dialect) to tinker with / to do sth to syn
xǐng (bound form) to scrutinize / (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct) / (bound form) to come to realize / (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders) syn
láo (bound form) to toil / labor / (bound form) laborer / (bound form) meritorious deed / (bound form) fatigue / to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth) / to express one's appreciation (Taiwan pr. [lao4]) syn
kuì (bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike / (bound form) to break through (a military encirclement) / (bound form) to be routed / to be overrun / to fall to pieces / (bound form) to fester / to ulcerate syn
碟仙 dié xiān form of divination similar to the Ouija board, in which participants use their forefingers to push a small saucer over a sheet of paper inscribed with numerous Chinese characters
dào road / path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]) / (bound form) way / reason / principle / (bound form) a skill / an art / a specialization / (Daoism) the Way / the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express / to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) syn
chù (bound form) place / locality / (bound form) part / aspect / (bound form) office / department / bureau / classifier for locations: spot, point syn
(bound form) base / foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese) syn
lín (bound form) woods / forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) syn
yuán currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first / original / primary / (bound form) basic / fundamental / (bound form) constituent / part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument / variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon syn
jié joint / node / (bound form) section / segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize / to save / (bound form) moral integrity / chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour) syn
(bound form) enemy / (bound form) to be a match for / to rival / (bound form) to resist / to withstand syn
river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2fen3] syn
yòu (bound form) right / right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence syn
xiè to thank / (bound form) to apologize / (bound form) to decline / to refuse / (bound form) (of flowers, leaves etc) to wither syn
shèng (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc) / (bound form) peerless individual / paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc) / (bound form) holy / sacred syn
xùn (bound form) to ask / to inquire / (bound form) to interrogate / to question / (bound form) news / information syn
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) syn
(bound form) book / record / register / (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records / (bound form) membership syn
dàng (bound form) shelves (for files) / pigeonholes / (bound form) files / crosspiece (of a table etc) / (bound form) (of goods) grade / vendor's open-air stall / (Tw) timeslot for a show or program / classifier for shows / classifier for events, affairs etc / Taiwan pr. [dang3] syn
(bound form) a person in servitude / low-ranking subordinate / (bound form) to be subordinate to / (bound form) clerical script (the style of characters intermediate between ancient seal and modern regular characters) syn
páng (bound form) huge / (bound form) numerous and disordered / (bound form) face syn
qǐn (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop / to cease syn
xié (bound form) to clasp under the arm / (bound form) to coerce / (bound form) to harbor (resentment etc) / Taiwan pr. [xia2] syn
kuò (bound form) extensive / vast / (bound form) outline / general shape / (bound form) to expand / to extend syn
(bound form) together / each other / (bound form) male servant / (bound form) dude / so-and-so (used in 那廝|那厮[na4 si1] and 這廝|这厮[zhe4 si1]) syn
小道 xiǎo dào bypath / trail / bribery as a means of achieving a goal / minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman) syn
抽签 抽籤 chōu qiān to perform divination with sticks / to draw lots / a ballot (in share dealing) syn
圆梦 圓夢 yuán mèng to fulfill one's dream / (divination) to predict the future by interpreting a dream / oneiromancy syn
竹签 竹簽 zhú qiān bamboo skewer / bamboo slip used in divination or gambling syn
甲骨 jiǎ gǔ tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC) / oracle bones
卜筮 bǔ shì divination
方术 方術 fāng shù arts of healing, divination, horoscope etc / supernatural arts (old)
qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag syn
jiào pair of hemispherical objects used in divination
divination by straw
命理学 命理學 mìng lǐ xué divination / divinatory art
谶纬 讖緯 chèn wěi divination combined with mystical Confucian philosopy, prevalent during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)
起课 起課 qǐ kè to practice divination
医卜 醫卜 yī bǔ medicine and divination
杯珓 bēi jiào pair of mussel-shaped objects thrown on the ground for divination purposes
奇门遁甲 奇門遁甲 qí mén dùn jiǎ ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
八字命理 bā zì mìng lǐ divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
课金 課金 kè jīn tax levied on a conquered people by an army / fee for a divination session / variant of 氪金[ke4 jin1], in-app purchase (gaming)
待诏 待詔 dài zhào expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties)
黄历 黃曆 huáng li Chinese divination almanac syn
简体 簡體 jiǎn tǐ simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3]
填写 填寫 tián xiě to fill in a form / to write data in a box (on a questionnaire or web form) syn
繁体 繁體 fán tǐ traditional form of Chinese, as opposed to simplified form 簡體|简体[jian3 ti3] syn
娘子 孃子 niáng zǐ (dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman syn
zhè (pronoun) this / these / (bound form) this / the (followed by a noun) / (bound form) this / these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing) syn
报名表 報名表 bào míng biǎo application form / registration form / CL:張|张[zhang1]
姑奶奶 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
zuō (bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person) syn
简写 簡寫 jiǎn xiě to write characters in simplified form / the simplified form of a character / to abbreviate (a word or expression) / to write in simple language syn
qíng (bound form) feelings / emotion / sentiment / passion / (bound form) situation / condition syn
děng to wait for / to await / by the time / when / till / and so on / etc. / et al. / (bound form) class / rank / grade / (bound form) equal to / same as / (used to end an enumeration) / (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun) syn
yuán (bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity / (bound form) member / classifier for military generals syn
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but / then / (bound form) standard / norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate / to follow / classifier for written items syn
jiè (bound form) boundary / border / (bound form) realm syn
pǐn (bound form) article / commodity / product / goods / (bound form) grade / rank / kind / type / variety / character / disposition / nature / temperament / to taste sth / to sample / to criticize / to comment / to judge / to size up / fret (on a guitar or lute) syn
qiè definitely / absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right. / Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters) syn
lián (bound form) to ally oneself with / to unite / to combine / to join / (bound form) (poetry) antithetical couplet syn
结疤 結疤 jié bā to form a scar / to form a scab
tài (bound form) / appearance / shape / form / state / attitude / (grammar) voice syn
xiào (bound form) school / college / (bound form) (military) field officer syn
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive / numb / wooden syn
pàn (bound form) to differentiate / to distinguish / (bound form) clearly (different) / to judge / to decide / to grade / (of a judge) to sentence syn
zuò seat / base / stand / (bound form) constellation / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座[shi1zuo4]) / classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc syn
(bound form) order / sequence / (bound form) introductory / initial / preface syn
kuò (bound form) to tie up / to tighten up / (bound form) to include / to comprise / to put (text) in brackets / Taiwan pr. [gua1] syn
(bound form) house / (bound form) room syn
wēn warm / lukewarm / to warm up / (bound form) temperature / (bound form) mild / soft / tender / to review (a lesson etc) / (TCM) fever / epidemic / pestilence (old variant of 瘟[wen1]) syn
guì expensive / (bound form) highly valued / precious / (bound form) noble / of high rank / (prefix) (honorific) your syn
(bound form) to encounter / to happen upon / to meet unplanned / (bound form) to treat / to receive syn
shòu (bound form) to confer / to give / (bound form) to teach / to instruct / (literary) to appoint syn
sēn (bound form) densely wooded / (fig.) (bound form) multitudinous / gloomy / forbidding syn
访 fǎng (bound form) to seek by inquiry / (bound form) to visit / to call on syn
pán tray / plate / dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check / to examine / to investigate / to transfer / to sell (property) / to shift / to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc) syn
(bound form) of short duration / hasty / rapid / (bound form) to hasten / to hurry / to urge / (literary) close by / pressed against syn
xiù (bound form) refined / elegant / graceful / beautiful / (bound form) superior / excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow / to bloom / (of grain crops) to produce ears syn
shū (literary) to kill / to behead / to sever / to separate / to surpass / (bound form) different / (bound form) special / remarkable / (literary) very / extremely syn
(bound form) to raid / to attack / (bound form) to continue the pattern / to perpetuate / (literary) classifier for suits of clothing or sets of bedding syn
bài to bow to / to pay one's respects / (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion) / to make a courtesy call / (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony / to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc) / (used before some verbs to indicate politeness) syn
(bound form) disease / ailment / (bound form) swift / (literary) to hate / to abhor syn
shè (bound form) residence / house / (bound form) my (in speaking of relatives younger than oneself) / (archaic) unit of distance equal to 30 li 里[li3] syn
mǐn (bound form) quick / nimble / agile / (bound form) quick-witted / smart
yāo the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch / pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc) syn
bǎo (bound form) fortress / stronghold / (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names) / (bound form) burger (abbr. for 漢堡|汉堡[han4bao3]) syn
(bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young / (bound form) fine / detailed syn
téng (bound form) to gallop / to prance / (bound form) to soar / to hover / to make room / to clear out / to vacate / (verb suffix indicating repeated action) syn
qiǎn (bound form) to dispatch / to send / (bound form) to drive away / to dispel syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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