卜

See also: 蔔 and ト

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

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.

Han character

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

1. fortune telling
2. prophesy
3. a surname

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		卜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǔ, bó, bo (bu³, bo², bo)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ, ㄅㄛˊ, ㄅㄛ˙

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): puk
• Min Nan (POJ): pok / poh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: pu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buu
    • IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bó
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: po²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bor
    • IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ˙
    • Wade-Giles: po⁵
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .bo
    • IPA ^(key): /b̥u̯ɔ/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: buk¹
    • Yale: būk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: puk
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /puk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pok / poh
    • Tâi-lô: pok / poh
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɔk̚³²/, /pɔʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔk̚³²/, /pɔʔ³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (卜, reconstructed)
Character (卜), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 屋 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 博木切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/puk̚/	/puk̚/	/puk̚/	/puk̚/	/pəwk̚/	/puk̚/	/puk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (卜, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
卜								bǔ								‹ puwk ›								/*pˤok/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
卜					998					卜					屋					0					卜					/*poːɡ/

Noun

卜

1. (Mandarin) (literary) radish

   萝卜 (radish)

Verb

卜 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin bǔ)

1. (literary) to divine

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

卜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ぼく (boku)
• Kun: うらなう (uranau), うらない (uranai)

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

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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

• Nôm Foundation
• Vietnamese Dictionaries: Viet Fun, Viet Dictionary