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U+535C, 卜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-535C

[U+535B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+535D]
U+2F18, ⼘
KANGXI RADICAL DIVINATION

[U+2F17]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F19]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

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

  1. Kangxi radical #25, .

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
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 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (漢字簡化方案) in 1956.

Etymology 1[edit]

simp. and trad.
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[edit]


Note:
  • poh - also written as , incl. surname (Taiwan);
  • pok - incl. surname (Mainland).
  • Wu

    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location
    Mandarin Beijing /pu²¹⁴/
    Harbin /pʰu²¹³/
    Tianjin /pʰu¹³/
    Jinan /pu⁵⁵/
    Qingdao /pu⁵⁵/
    Zhengzhou /pu⁵³/
    Xi'an /po²¹/
    Xining /pv̩⁴⁴/
    Yinchuan /puə¹³/
    /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
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (1)
    Final () (3)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () I
    Fanqie
    Baxter puwk
    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
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    buk1
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 998
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*poːɡ/

    Definitions[edit]

    1. to divine
    2. (literary) to foretell; to predict
      生死未  ―  shēngsǐwèi  ―  no one knows whether the person is dead of alive
    3. (literary) to choose
        ―    ―  to choose a place to live
    4. a surname

    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology 2[edit]

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

    Etymology 3[edit]

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

    References[edit]


    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

    Readings[edit]

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    うらない
    Jinmeiyō
    kun’yomi
    For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
    うらな
    [noun] fortune-telling
    (This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

    Etymology 2[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    ぼく
    Jinmeiyō
    kan’yōon

    Noun[edit]

    (ぼく) (boku

    1. (archaic) fortune-telling
    2. (archaic) choosing
    Derived terms[edit]

    Etymology 3[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    うら
    Jinmeiyō
    kun’yomi
    For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
    うらS
    [noun] (archaic) fortune-telling
    (This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    (eumhun (jeom bok))

    1. Hanja form? of (to divine).

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

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

    Verb[edit]

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

    References[edit]

    Zhuang[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    1. Sawndip form of boh

    Classifier[edit]

    1. Sawndip form of boux