Left: 圭 (twice earth 土, here: part of way/street 街, where you walk over piled earth.), right: fortune telling 卜 (crack in a turtle's shell used for divining, sometimes also: forking of a way)
Mnemonic
About the way with a forking, there is the: divinatory trigram.
This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
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Vocabulary
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变卦
biàn guà
to change one's mind; to go turncoat on; to go back on one's word; to break an agreement
算卦
suàn guà
fortune telling
炼丹八卦炉
liàn dān bā guà lú
eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality; symbol of the alchemist's art; Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble
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