一切經音義 67.250

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Divination by tortoise shell and yarrow stalks (卜筮) (fanqie: 時制 [shì]. The Liji says: "The tortoise shell is for bǔ, and the yarrow stalks are for shì. Divination by tortoise and yarrow is that by which one resolves doubts and settles hesitation; hence when there is doubt, one divines by yarrow." The character is formed from "bamboo" [竹] and "shaman" [巫]. Divining by yarrow involves sorting the yarrow stalks to obtain hexagrams, splitting bamboo to make the lines; therefore the character is formed from "bamboo." 揲 has two fanqie: 食列 [shé] and 余列 [yè]).