Chinese symbol for “unknowable”
未卜
wèi bǔ
(literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unknowable is 未卜 (wèi bǔ), defined as: (literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 未卜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 未来 (未來) | wèi lái | future; tomorrow |
| 尚未 | shàng wèi | not yet; still not |
| 从未 (從未) | cóng wèi | never |
| 并未 (並未) | bìng wèi | (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ... |
| 未能 | wèi néng | cannot; to fail to |
| 未经 (未經) | wèi jīng | not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process) |
| 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) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unknowable”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.