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枚卜

Mandarin · pinyin méi bǔ

to choose officials by divination (archaic)
to practice divination without a definite question

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枚: méi · stalk of shrub, trunk of tree
卜: bo · bǔ · fortune telling; prophesy

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2–3 · mei2 bu3

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