乩

乩 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+5, 6 strokes, cangjie input 難卜口山 (XYRU) or 卜口山 (YRU), four-corner 2261₀, composition ⿰占乚)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 84, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 182
• Dae Jaweon: page 171, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 53, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E69

乩

1. method of divination involving planchette writing
2. alternative form of 稽 (“to divine”)

• “乩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “乩”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “Entry #8360”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “乩”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 98.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to divine; alternative form of 卟 or 稽.

• Go-on: けい (kei)
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kun: うらなう (uranau, 乩う)^{←うらなふ (uranafu, 乩ふ, historical)}

乩 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune–Reischauer kye)

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