えき
Meanings
Noun
1. type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks
2. The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching
Kanji used
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Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (14 in total)
trade; commerce
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
change of rank
fortuneteller; diviner
constancy; immutable
The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching
study of divination
divination; fortunetelling
divination (based on the Book of Changes)
change; alteration
revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)
three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)
the death of a scholar