shì

common

Meaning of

筮 means to divine using yarrow stalks; to practice milfoil divination. Pronounced shì.

  • to divine using yarrow stalks; to practice milfoil divination

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Definitions & Examples

rén
cháng
yòng
shì
lái
xiōng
 

Ancient people often used yarrow divination to predict good or bad fortune.

Shì
shì
Zhōng
guó
dài
liǎng
zhǒng
zhòng
yào
de
zhān
fāng
 

Divination by yarrow and by tortoise shell were two important methods of fortune-telling in ancient China.

tōng
guò
shì
dào
le
zhào
 

He obtained a good omen through divination.