掷筊

Traditional form:

擲筊

Pinyin (reading):

zhìjiǎo

Definitions:

• poe divination, a traditional Chinese divination method where a pair of crescent-shaped wooden or bamboo blocks is thrown on the ground, with the positions of the blocks determining the divine answer

Characters:

• 掷 - to throw, to hurl, to fling, to cast
• 筊 - bamboo rope

Traditional characters:

• 擲 - to throw, to hurl, to fling, to cast
• 筊 - bamboo rope