卜 — Chinese character
卜
bo
divination, fortune-telling; prophecy
- Pinyin
- bo
- Radical
- 25 ⼘ (Divination)
- Strokes
- 2
- Components
- 丨 丶
- Formation
- pictographic — A crack on an oracle bone
- Traditional
- 蔔
- Japanese
- 卜 as a kanji
Common words with 卜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 胡萝卜 (胡蘿蔔) | hú luó bo | carrot |
| 萝卜 (蘿蔔) | luó bo | radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. daikon; measure word: 根 (gēn) |
| 占卜 | zhān bǔ | to divine |
| 胡萝卜素 (胡蘿蔔素) | hú luó bo sù | carotene |
| 未卜 | wèi bǔ | (literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable |
| 红萝卜 (紅蘿蔔) | hóng luó bo | carrot; red radish |
| 卜辞 (卜辭) | bǔ cí | oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones |
| 白萝卜 (白蘿蔔) | bái luó bo | daikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) |
| 卜筮 | bǔ shì | divination |
| 卜卦 | bǔ guà | to divine using the eight trigrams |
| 未卜先知 | wèi bǔ xiān zhī | (idiom) to foresee the future (without divination); to know beforehand through uncanny insight |
| 小萝卜头 (小蘿蔔頭) | xiǎo luó bo tou | (coll.) kid; little tyke |
English words written with 卜
卜 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 8
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
- Zhuangzi Tsê Yang
- Zhuangzi Contingencies
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.