(bound form) to divine
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used in 蘿蔔|萝卜[]
surname Bu
carrot
to divine
to divine / to prophesy / to foretell the future
to divine using the eight trigrams
to predict by divining / to consult the oracle
to choose a capital by divination / to choose a home / to choose one's burial place by divination
to choose a home
to ask oracle for war forecast
day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
oracle tortoise shell
divination
to divine by tossing coins
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
oracle bone
lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom) / fig. each person has his own position / each to his own / horses for courses / every kettle has its lid
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?
see 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[]
vaporizer (e-cigarette) (loanword)
small red radish
(coll.) kid / little tyke
Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable
lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem
(idiom) to foresee the future (without divination) / to know beforehand through uncanny insight
to choose officials by divination (archaic) / to practice divination without a definite question
small red radish
small red radish
daikon / white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
useless person
carrot / red radish
carotene
(coll.) womanizer / skirt-chaser
when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom) / fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
(saying) one man's meat is another man's poison / to each his own
radish cake (a type of dim sum, commonly called "turnip cake")
shredded daikon pie
see 蘿蔔白菜，各有所愛|萝卜白菜，各有所爱[]
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