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卜
bǔ
1.
to divine
2.
to forecast or estimate
3.
(of a place to live etc) to choose
Very Common • Top 4%
✏️ 2 strokes
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
卜占
bǔzhān
to divine
卜卦
bǔguà
to divine using the trigrams
卜问
bǔwèn
to predict by divining
卜宅
bǔzhái
to choose a capital by divination
卜居
bǔjū
to choose a home
卜征
bǔzhēng
to ask oracle for war forecast
卜甲
bǔjiǎ
oracle tortoise shell
卜筮
bǔshì
divination
卜课
bǔkè
divination
卜辞
bǔcí
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
卜骨
bǔgǔ
oracle bone
占卜
zhānbǔ
to divine
未卜
wèibǔ
not foreseen
枚卜
méibǔ
to choose officials by divination (archaic)
卖卜
màibǔ
to do trade as a fortune teller
医卜
yībǔ
medicine and divination
预卜
yùbǔ
to foretell
吉卜赛
jíbǔsài
gypsy (may refer to Roma people, or to Bohemian lifestyle)
易卜生
Yìbǔshēng
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House [[玩偶之家]]
都卜勒
Dōubǔlè
variant of [[多普勒<Duōpǔlè>]]
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,978
- Word Frequency Rank
- 3,095 of 84,292
- Radical Number
- 25