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卜

See also: 蔔, ト, and ㅏ
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]

Translingual

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Han character

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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.

Derived characters

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References

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  • 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

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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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
           
Characters in the same phonetic series (卜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
仆 *pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴 *pʰoɡs
訃 *pʰoɡs
朴 *pʰroːɡ
圤 *pʰroːɡ
卜 *poːɡ
鳪 *poːɡ
扑 *pʰoːɡ
攴 *pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ

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.

Etymology 1

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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).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • poh - also written as 博, incl. surname (Taiwan);
  • pok - incl. surname (Mainland).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 卜
Mandarin Beijing /pu²¹⁴/
Harbin /pʰu²¹³/
Tianjin /pʰu¹³/
Jinan /pu⁵⁵/
Qingdao /pu⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /pu⁵³/
Xi'an /po²¹/
Xining /pv̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /puə¹³/ 姓
/pu¹³/ ～算子
Lanzhou /pə¹³/
Ürümqi /pʰu⁵¹/
Wuhan /pʰu²¹³/
Chengdu /pu¹³/
Guiyang /pʰu²¹/
Kunming /pʰu³¹/
Nanjing /puʔ⁵/
Hefei /pʰəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /pəʔ²/
Pingyao /pʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /pəʔ⁴³/ ～拉
/pei⁵⁵/ 萝～
Wu Shanghai /poʔ⁵/
Suzhou /poʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /pʰoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /po²¹³/
Hui Shexian /pɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /pʰu⁵/
Xiang Changsha /pʰu²⁴/
Xiangtan /pʰu²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /puk̚¹/
Taoyuan /puk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pok̚⁵/
Nanning /pʰuk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /puk̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /pɔk̚³²/
/poʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /pɔuʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /pʰu²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /pok̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔbɔk̚⁵/
/ʔbak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 卜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 屋 (3)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 博木切
Baxter puwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/puk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/puk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/puk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pəwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/puk̚/
Wang
Li 		/puk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/puk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		buk1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 卜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bǔ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ puwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pˁok/
English divine (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 卜
Reading # 1/1
No. 998
Phonetic
component 		卜
Rime
group 		屋
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		卜
Old
Chinese 		/*poːɡ/

Definitions

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卜

  1. to divine
  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

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

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Japanese

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Kanji

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卜

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

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  • 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)

Etymology 1

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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.)

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
卜
ぼく
Jinmeiyō
kan'yōon

Noun

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卜(ぼく) • (boku) 

  1. (archaic) fortune-telling
  2. (archaic) choosing
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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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.)

Korean

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Hanja

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卜 (eumhun 점 복 (jeom bok))

  1. hanja form? of 복 (“to divine”)

Tày

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Adjective

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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)

Verb

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卜 (fộc)

  1. Nôm form of fộc.

References

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  • 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

Vietnamese

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Han character

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

Verb

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卜

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

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Zhuang

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Noun

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卜

  1. Sawndip form of boh

Classifier

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卜

  1. Sawndip form of boux
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