Radical 25

"⼘" redirects here. For the four stroke diagrams for divination radical, see Radical 89. For the Japanese katakana character ト, see To (kana). For the Chinese surname, see Bu (surname).

卜
Radical 25 (U+2F18)
卜 (U+535C) "divination"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	bǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄅㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:	pu3
Cantonese Yale:	būk
Jyutping:	buk1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	poh (col.) pok (lit.)
Japanese Kana:	ボク boku (on'yomi) うらな-う urana-u (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	복 bok
Hán-Việt:	bốc
Names
Japanese name(s):	卜のト/ぼくのと bokunoto 占い/うらない uranai ト/と to
Hangul:	점 cheom
Stroke order animation
File:卜-order.gif

Radical 25 or radical divination (卜部) is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 45 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

卜 is also the 9th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. ⺊ is the only associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component 卜.

In addition, 卜 is also the simplified form of 蔔 meaning "radish" or "carrot".

Evolution

• Oracle bone script character
  Oracle bone script character
• Bronze script character
  Bronze script character
• Large seal script character
  Large seal script character
• Small seal script character
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	卜 ⺊
+2	卝 卞
+3	卟 占 卡 卢SC (=盧 -> 皿)
+5	卣 卤SC (=鹵 -> 鹵)
+6	卥 卦
+7	卧SC/HK (=臥 -> 臣)
+9	卨

External links

• Unihan Database - U+535C