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卜

卜

卜 U+535C, 卜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-535C
← 卛
[U+535B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卝 →
[U+535D]
See also: 蔔 and ト

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. fortune telling
  2. prophecy
  3. a surname
  4. Kangxi radical #25, ⼘ ‎(“divination”).

References

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 卜

Pronunciation

  • 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 (Min Nan) /pɔk̚³²/
/poʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pɔuʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pʰu²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pok̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /puk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /puk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /puk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /pəwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /puk̚/
Wang
Li		 /puk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /puk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 卜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ puwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤok/
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/

Verb

卜

  1. (literary) to divine

References

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜 – see 欲.
(This character, 卜, is a variant form of 欲.)

Japanese

Kanji

卜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

卜 ‎(hiragana うらない, romaji uranai)

  1. Alternative form of 占い

卜 ‎(hiragana ぼく, romaji boku)

  1. (archaic) fortune-telling

卜 ‎(hiragana うら, romaji ura)

  1. (archaic) fortune-telling

Korean

Hanja

卜 • ‎(bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune-Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卜

Readings

  • âm: bốc, cốc, bặc, bóc, vốc
  • nghĩa (literal meaning): ăn bốc

Verb

卜

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

References

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 卜
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
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 of a crack in an oracle bone, used for divination in ancient China. The word itself (Old Chinese: *puk) may be onomatopoeic in origin.

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