Where does “卜占術” come from?

卜占術 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 術, from Middle Chinese 術.

卜占術 (Japanese): divination techniques and methods

Definitions

  1. divination techniques and methods

Ancestry of “卜占術”, step by step

卜占術 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesetechnique; art; way, means
2Middle Chinese

via Japanese 卜占

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese卜占augury, divination, scrying, fortune-telling,...
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