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卜

bǔ

Definition

to divine
to predict
graphic component (often seen in other characters)
to forecast
to estimate
to choose (a place to live etc)
radical (Kang Xi 25)

Character Decomposition

Compounds (14)

(before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs) not; no; graphic component (often seen in other characters); negative prefix

under; graphic component (often seen in other characters); down; downward; to fall; to get off; to descend; to leave; to issue; to deliver; to apply; to use; below; lower (in quality, rank...); next (week...); latter; second

card; to stop; to block; calorie

outside; out; exterior; foreign; external; beyond

to go; to visit (e.g. another country); to attend (a banquet etc)

divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經

hurried

to fall forward; to fall prostrate

see 卟啉, porphyrin; see 卟吩, porphin

to block; to be stuck; to be wedged; customs station; a clip; a fastener; a checkpost; Taiwan pr. [ka3]

to report a bereavement; obituary

polonium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. [po4]

Celtis sinensis var. japonica

to display; to show; to reveal; spirit; graphic component (often seen in other characters); Left radical form of 示

Related words (21)

to divine; to prophecy; to foretell the future

to divine using the trigrams; fortune telling

to choose a capital by divination; to choose a home; to choose one's burial place by divination

to choose a home

to ask oracle for war forecast

oracle tortoise shell

divination

divination; fortune telling

oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones

to predict by divining; to look into the future

oracle bone; bone used for divination, esp. animal scapula

bǔ zhòu bǔ yè

day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)

medicine and divination

to do trade as a fortune teller

to divine

not foreseen; unpredictable; not on the cards

to choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite question

to foretell; to predict

gypsy (may refer to Roma people, or to Bohemian lifestyle)

qián tú wèi bǔ

hanging in the balance; the future is hard to forecast; ¿Qué serà?; who knows what the future holds?

wèi bǔ xiān zhī

predictable; sth one can predict without being a clairvoyant

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