卜ぼく

See also: 蔔, ト, and ㅏ

卜ぼく U+535C, 卜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-535C ← 卛 [U+535B] CJK Unified Ideographs 卝 → [U+535D]

⼘ U+2F18, ⼘ KANGXI RADICAL DIVINATION ← ⼗ [U+2F17] Kangxi Radicals ⼙ → [U+2F19]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #25, ⼘.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/卜ぼく
• 仆, 𫨦, 圤, 处, 外そと, 𭑧, 𫶽, 扑, 𣱶, 𣅃, 朴ほお, 𤆊, 㺪, 𦘱, 𭁅, 䃼, 𪽁, 𤰘, 𥃨, 𥐚, 𥝒, 𥩖, 补, 𫃚, 𦓦, 虲, 訃ふ(讣), 𧴤, 赴, 䟔, 𨈒, 𨊣, 𤱈, 釙(钋), 𩚅(𬲥), 𩡭, 𩨓, 𩱻, 𬵂, 𪋿, 𪐙, 𭻣
• 𠚬, 𠚩, 𭭄, 𨾇, 鳪, 盀, 㓀, 𪢱, 𭶺, 𫁰, 𤴩, 𡆥

References

• 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

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卜ぼく
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

Characters in the same phonetic series (卜ぼく) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
仆	*pʰoːɡs, *pʰus, *pʰoɡs, *bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴	*pʰoɡs
訃ふ	*pʰoɡs
朴ほお	*pʰroːɡ
圤	*pʰroːɡ
卜ぼく	*poːɡ
鳪	*poːɡ
扑	*pʰoːɡ
攴	*pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ

Perhaps a pictogram (象形しょうけい) of a crack in an oracle bone, used for divination in ancient China.

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 蔔 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字かんじ簡化方案ほうあん》) in 1956.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		卜ぼく
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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǔ (bu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): buk¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): puk

  (Meixian, Guangdong): bug⁵

• Eastern Min (BUC): bók
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pok / poh

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bog⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷poq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pu³
    • Yale: bǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buu
    • Palladius: бу (bu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: buk¹
    • Yale: būk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: puk
    • Hakka Romanization System: bug`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /puk̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: bug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /pʊk̚¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bók
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pouʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pok
    • Tâi-lô: pok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poh
    • Tâi-lô: poh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poiq
    • IPA (Taipei): /poʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤʔ³²/

Note:

• poh - also written as 博ひろし, incl. surname (Taiwan);
• pok - incl. surname (Mainland).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: bog⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pok
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pok̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷poq
    • MiniDict: poh^入いれ
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴poq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /poʔ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 卜ぼく
Mandarin	Beijing	/pu²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/pʰu²¹³/
	Tianjin	/pʰu¹³/
	Jinan	/pu⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/pu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/pu⁵³/
	Xi'an	/po²¹/
	Xining	/pv̩⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/puə¹³/ 姓せい /pu¹³/ ～算さん子こ
	Lanzhou	/pə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/pʰu⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/pʰu²¹³/
	Chengdu	/pu¹³/
	Guiyang	/pʰu²¹/
	Kunming	/pʰu³¹/
	Nanjing	/puʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/pʰəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/pʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/pəʔ⁴³/ ～拉ひしげ /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 (Hokkien)	/pɔk̚³²/ /poʔ³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/pɔuʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/pʰu²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/pok̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ʔbɔk̚⁵/ /ʔbak̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: puwk

Rime
Character	卜ぼく
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	幫 (1)
Final (韻いん)	屋や (3)
Tone (調しらべ)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	I
Fanqie	博ひろし木き切きり
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*poːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卜ぼく
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǔ
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	卜ぼく
Reading #	1/1
No.	998
Phonetic component	卜ぼく
Rime group	屋や
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	卜ぼく
Old Chinese	/*poːɡ/

Definitions

卜ぼく

1. to divine

   • 予よ惟おもんみ乙おつ卯う，朝あさ至いたり于洛らく師し。我わが卜ぼく河かわ朔ついたち黎はじむ水みず。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     予よ惟おもんみ乙おつ卯う，朝あさ至いたり于洛らく师。我わが卜ぼく河かわ朔ついたち黎はじむ水みず。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

     Yǔ wéi yǐmǎo, zhāo zhì yú Luòshī. Wǒ bǔ Héshuò Lí shuǐ. [Pinyin]

     On the day Yi-mao, I came in the morning to this capital of Luo. I (first) divined by the shell concerning (the ground about) the li-water on the north of the He.

2. (literary) to foretell; to predict

   生死せいし未ひつじ卜ぼく  ―  shēngsǐwèibǔ  ―  no one knows whether the person is dead or alive

3. (literary) to choose

   卜ぼく居きょ  ―  bǔjū  ―  to choose a place to live

4. a surname

Compounds

• 不ふ卜ぼく可知かち
• 前途ぜんと未み卜ぼく
• 十じゅう卜ぼく (sap6 bok1) (Cantonese)
• 卜ぼく人じん
• 卜ぼく兒じ／卜ぼく儿
• 卜ぼく卜ぼく
• 卜ぼく卦け (bǔguà)
• 卜ぼく吉きち
• 卜ぼく夜よる卜ぼく晝ひる／卜ぼく夜よる卜ぼく昼ひる
• 卜ぼく婿むこ
• 卜ぼく宅たく
• 卜居ぼっきょ (bǔjū)
• 卜ぼく年ねん (bǔnián)
• 卜ぼく度ど
• 卜ぼく征せい
• 卜ぼく日び
• 卜ぼく易えき
• 卜ぼく晝ひる卜ぼく夜よる／卜ぼく昼ひる卜ぼく夜よる
• 卜ぼく珓 (bǔjiào)
• 卜ぼく祝しゅく
• 卜ぼく窀穸
• 卜筮ぼくぜい (bǔshì)
• 卜ぼく算さん
• 卜ぼく築きずけ／卜ぼく筑
• 卜ぼく老ろう
• 卜者ぼくしゃ
• 卜ぼく課か／卜ぼく课 (bǔkè)
• 卜ぼく辭じ／卜ぼく辞じ (bǔcí)
• 卜ぼく鄰／卜ぼく邻 (bǔlín)
• 占うらない卜ぼく (zhānbǔ)
• 吉凶きっきょう未み卜ぼく
• 吉よし卜ぼく賽さい人じん／吉よし卜ぼく赛人 (jíbǔsàirén)
• 問とい卜ぼく／问卜 (wènbǔ)
• 太ふとし卜ぼく
• 存亡そんぼう未み卜ぼく
• 成都せいと賣卜ばいぼく／成都せいと卖卜
• 拉ひしげ卜ぼく楞
• 未み卜ぼく (wèibǔ)
• 未み卜ぼく先さき知ち (wèibǔxiānzhī)
• 枚まい卜ぼく
• 死生しせい未み卜ぼく
• 殷いん墟卜辭じ
• 求もとめ神しん問とい卜ぼく／求もとめ神しん问卜 (qiúshénwènbǔ)
• 油あぶら花はな卜ぼく
• 狼おおかみ卜ぼく食しょく
• 玉枝たまえ卜ぼく壽ことぶき／玉枝たまえ卜ぼく寿ことぶき
• 羊ひつじ卜ぼく
• 老ろう醫い少しょう卜ぼく／老ろう医い少しょう卜ぼく
• 耳みみ卜ぼく
• 貞さだ卜ぼく文字もじ／贞卜文字もじ
• 貨卜／货卜
• 賣卜ばいぼく／卖卜
• 賣卜ばいぼく測はか字じ／卖卜测字
• 醫い卜ぼく星ほし相しょう／医い卜ぼく星ほし相しょう
• 響ひびき卜ぼく／响卜
• 預あずか卜ぼく／预卜 (yùbǔ)
• 鳥とり卜ぼく／鸟卜
• 龜かめ卜ぼく／龟卜 (guībǔ)

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜ぼく – see 蔔 (“carrot”). (This character is the simplified form of 蔔).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 3

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

References

• “Entry #64”, in 臺灣たいわん閩南語ご常用じょうよう詞し辭典じてん [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji

卜ぼく

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: ほく (hoku)
• Kan-on: ほく (hoku)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼく (boku)
• Kun: うらなう (uranau, 卜ぼくう); うらない (uranai)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
卜ぼく
うらない Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜ぼく – see the following entry.

【占うらないうらない】 [noun] fortune-telling

(This term, 卜ぼく, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
卜ぼく
ぼく Jinmeiyō
kan’yōon

Noun

卜ぼく(ぼく) • (boku) 

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

Derived terms

• 卜ぼく(ぼく)する (bokusuru, “tell fortunes”)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
卜ぼく
うら Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜ぼく – see the following entry.

【占うらないうら】S [noun] (archaic) fortune-telling

(This term, 卜ぼく, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

卜ぼく (eumhun 점 복 (jeom bok))

1. Hanja form^? of 복 (“to divine”).

Tày

Adjective

卜ぼく (bốc, phoóc)

1. Nôm form of bốc (“dry”).

   忒㳍𱺵㳍卜ぼく

   Rẳc bó là bó bốc

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. Nôm form of phoóc (“foolish”).

   坎󰝧宗そう𫰴卜ぼく

   Khảm khỉn tổng sao phoóc

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Verb

卜ぼく (fộc)

1. Nôm form of fộc.

References

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

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

Verb

卜ぼく

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

References

• Nôm Foundation
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)

Zhuang

Noun

卜ぼく

1. Sawndip form of boh

Classifier

卜ぼく

1. Sawndip form of boux