bamboo divination stick; I Ching stick
Specialized term for the 50 bamboo sticks used in traditional I Ching (易経) divination. Not an everyday word; encountered in contexts of Chinese-derived fortune-telling.
See also: 易経
The diviner picked up the bamboo divination sticks and began to arrange them quietly.
From Chinese 筮竹 (shìzhú), combining 筮 'divination' and 竹 'bamboo'. The term entered Japanese through classical Chinese texts on I Ching divination.