卜

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Radical 25 卜

卜 (Kangxi radical 25, 卜+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 卜 (Y), four-corner 2300₀, composition ⿰丨丶)

1. Kangxi radical #25, ⼘.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/卜
• 仆, 𫨦, 圤, 处, 外, 𭑧, 𫶽, 扑, 𣱶, 𣅃, 朴, 𤆊, 㺪, 𦘱, 𭁅, 䃼, 𪽁, 𤰘, 𥃨, 𥐚, 𥝒, 𥩖, 补, 𫃚, 𦓦, 虲, 訃(讣), 𧴤, 赴, 䟔, 𨈒, 𨊣, 𤱈, 釙(钋), 𩚅(𬲥), 𩡭, 𩨓, 𩱻, 𬵂, 𪋿, 𪐙, 𭻣
• 𠚬, 𠚩, 𭭄, 𨾇, 鳪, 盀, 㓀, 𪢱, 𭶺, 𫁰, 𤴩, 𡆥

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 157, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2774
• Dae Jaweon: page 361, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 91, character 11
• Unihan data for U+535C

Historical forms of the character 卜
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Perhaps a pictogram (象形) of a crack in an oracle bone, used for divination in ancient China.

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 蔔 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

"Cracking" of a bone or tortoise shell in fire: "to divine by oracle bone" (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Galo -`buk (“to burst”), Galo -`puk (“to pop”), Mizo puak (“to explode; to burst”) (STEDT).

卜

1. to divine

   • 予惟乙卯，朝至于洛師。我卜河朔黎水。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     予惟乙卯，朝至于洛师。我卜河朔黎水。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

     Yǔ wéi yǐmǎo, zhāo zhì yú Luòshī. Wǒ bǔ Héshuò Lí shuǐ.

     On the day Yi-mao, I came in the morning to this capital of Luo. I (first) divined by the shell concerning (the ground about) the li-water on the north of the He.

2. (literary) to foretell; to predict

   生死未卜  ―  shēngsǐwèibǔ  ―  no one knows whether the person is dead or alive

3. (literary) to choose

   卜居  ―  bǔjū  ―  to choose a place to live

4. a surname

• “Entry #64”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: ほく (hoku)
• Kan-on: ほく (hoku)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼく (boku)
• Kun: うらなう (uranau, 卜う)、うらない (uranai)

卜(ぼく) • (boku) 

1. (archaic) fortune-telling
2. (archaic) choosing

• 卜(ぼく)する (bokusuru, “tell fortunes”)

卜 (eumhun 점 복 (jeom bok))

1. hanja form^? of 복 (“to divine”)

卜 (bốc, phoóc)

1. Nôm form of bốc (“dry”).

   忒㳍𱺵㳍卜

   Rẳc bó là bó bốc

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2. Nôm form of phoóc (“foolish”).

   坎󰝧宗𫰴卜

   Khảm khỉn tổng sao phoóc

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

卜 (fộc)

1. Nôm form of fộc.

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

卜: Hán Việt readings: bốc, bặc
卜: Nôm readings: bói, bóc, vúc, bốc, vốc, vóc, bặc, cốc

卜

1. ăn bốc (咹卜, to eat with the fingers)

• Nôm Foundation
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)

卜

1. Sawndip form of boh

卜

1. Sawndip form of boux