卜占

Chinese

		to divine; foretell; turnip	to divine
simp. and trad. (卜占)		卜	占
anagram		占卜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǔzhān

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ ㄓㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk¹ zim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǔzhān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ ㄓㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǔjhan
    • Wade–Giles: pu³-chan¹
    • Yale: bǔ-jān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buujan
    • Palladius: бучжань (bučžanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: buk¹ zim¹
    • Yale: būk jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁷ dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bug¹ jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚⁵ t͡siːm⁵⁵/

Verb

卜占

1. to practice divination

Noun

卜占

1. augury; divination; scrying; fortune-telling, particularly using trigrams
2. fortune or prophecy so told

See also

• (not to be confused with) 占卜 (zhānbǔ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
卜	占
ぼく Jinmeiyō	せん Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

Sinitic. Date of borrowing unknown. Compare modern Chinese 卜占 (bǔzhān).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぼくせん [bòkúséń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bo̞kɯ̟̊sẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

卜(ぼく)占(せん) • (bokusen) 

1. augury, divination, scrying, fortune-telling, particularly using trigrams
2. a fortune or prophecy so told

Synonyms

• 占(せん)卜(ぼく) (senboku)
• 占(うら)ない (uranai), 占(うらな)い (uranai)
• 八(はっ)卦(け) (hakke)
• 占(せん)術(じゅつ) (senjutsu)

Derived terms

• 卜占官(ぼくせんかん) (bokusenkan): a public augur or fortuneteller in ancient Rome
• 卜占術(ぼくせんじゅつ) (bokusenjutsu): divination technique

Verb

卜(ぼく)占(せん)する • (bokusen suru) suru (stem 卜(ぼく)占(せん)し (bokusen shi), past 卜(ぼく)占(せん)した (bokusen shita))

1. to augur, to divine, to scry, to tell a fortune, particularly using trigrams

Conjugation

Conjugation of "卜占する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	卜占し	ぼくせんし	bokusen shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	卜占し	ぼくせんし	bokusen shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	卜占する	ぼくせんする	bokusen suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	卜占する	ぼくせんする	bokusen suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	卜占すれ	ぼくせんすれ	bokusen sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	卜占せよ¹ 卜占しろ²	ぼくせんせよ¹ ぼくせんしろ²	bokusen seyo¹ bokusen shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	卜占される	ぼくせんされる	bokusen sareru
Causative	卜占させる 卜占さす	ぼくせんさせる ぼくせんさす	bokusen saseru bokusen sasu
Potential	卜占できる	ぼくせんできる	bokusen dekiru
Volitional	卜占しよう	ぼくせんしよう	bokusen shiyō
Negative	卜占しない	ぼくせんしない	bokusen shinai
Negative continuative	卜占せず	ぼくせんせず	bokusen sezu
Formal	卜占します	ぼくせんします	bokusen shimasu
Perfective	卜占した	ぼくせんした	bokusen shita
Conjunctive	卜占して	ぼくせんして	bokusen shite
Hypothetical conditional	卜占すれば	ぼくせんすれば	bokusen sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

Synonyms

• 占卜(せんぼく) (senboku)
• 占(うら)なう (uranau), 占(うらな)う (uranau)
• 易(えき) (eki)

Further reading

• Divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia