See also: and
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]

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

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

  1. Kangxi radical #25, .

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: 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

ChineseEdit

Glyph originEdit

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 1Edit

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).

PronunciationEdit


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
    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/

    DefinitionsEdit

    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

    CompoundsEdit

    Etymology 2Edit

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

    Etymology 3Edit

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

    ReferencesEdit

    JapaneseEdit

    KanjiEdit

    (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

    ReadingsEdit

    Etymology 1Edit

    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 2Edit

    Kanji in this term
    ぼく
    Jinmeiyō
    kan’yōon

    NounEdit

    (ぼく) (boku

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

    Etymology 3Edit

    Kanji in this term
    うら
    Jinmeiyō
    kun’yomi

    NounEdit

    (うら) (ura

    1. (archaic) fortune-telling

    KoreanEdit

    HanjaEdit

    , eumhun (jeom bok)

    1. Hanja form? of (to divine).

    VietnameseEdit

    Han characterEdit

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

    VerbEdit

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

    ReferencesEdit

    ZhuangEdit

    NounEdit

    1. Sawndip form of boh

    ClassifierEdit

    1. Sawndip form of boux