Tools
- Cim bucket (Chinese: 簽筒 Pinyin, qian tong, cim tong, chim tong, chien tung): A long cylindrical bamboo cup or tube.
- Kau Cim sticks (Chinese: 簽, qian, cim, chim, chien): The flat sticks which are stored in the tube. Generally made of bamboo, they resemble wide, flat incense sticks, and are often painted red at one end. A single number, both in Arabic numerals and in Chinese characters, is inscribed on each stick. Each stick has a different number on it, and no two are alike. There are usually a total of 100 sticks in the cup, although the Chi Chi Sticks variation sold in the USA for fortune telling has only 78 sticks.
- 100 written oracle outcomes (or 78, for the Chi Chi sticks variation).
A German Werner Banck classify the content of 420 sets to 24 categories and 160 sub categories.
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