卜

卜 U+535C, 卜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-535C ← 卛 [U+535B] CJK Unified Ideographs 卝 → [U+535D]

⼘ U+2F18, ⼘ KANGXI RADICAL DIVINATION ← ⼗ [U+2F17] Kangxi Radicals ⼙ → [U+2F19]

Stroke order

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

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.

simp. and trad.		卜
alternative forms		𠁡 𠁢

"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. [Pinyin]

     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

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜 – see 蔔 (“carrot”). (This character is the simplified form of 蔔).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜 – see 欲 (“(Min) to want (to do); about to”). (This character is a variant form of 欲).

• “Entry #64”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (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)

Kanji in this term
卜
うらない Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜 – see the following entry.

【占うらない】 [noun] fortune-telling

(This term, 卜, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kanji in this term
卜
ぼく Jinmeiyō
kan'yōon

卜(ぼく) • (boku) 

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

• 卜(ぼく)する (bokusuru, “tell fortunes”)

Kanji in this term
卜
うら Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜 – see the following entry.

【占うら】S [noun] (archaic) fortune-telling

(This term, 卜, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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 [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (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