divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1] / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]

卦 character breakdown

surname Bu
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
(old) jade tablet (a ceremonial badge of rank)

= : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is modelling a jade tablet (圭) out of clay (土) in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1).
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]

Characters with 卦 as component

to hang or suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried or concerned / to make a phone call (dialect) / to register or record / classifier for sets or clusters of objects / (slang) to kill / to die / to be finished / to fail (an exam)

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) cleaned all her jade tablets (圭) by putting them in the ashram's washing mashine (a4). Now she is putting them on the clothes hanger (挂) using a toy claw (扌).
Chinese-style unlined garment; gown
Chinese-style unlined garment / gown
squares of a chess board

Words with 卦

Bagua Mountain, Taiwan
baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)
baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)
eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics
the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经
to divine using the trigrams / fortune telling
interpretation of the divinatory trigrams
to interpret the divinatory trigrams
to tell sb's fortune using divinatory trigrams
to divine using the eight trigrams

Sentences with 卦

卦 currently does not appear in any sentence.