Radical 25

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

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:ホク hoku (on'yomi)
うらな-う urana-u (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:복 bok
Names
Japanese name(s):卜のト/ぼくのと bokunoto
占い/うらない unarai
ト/と to
Hangul:점 cheom
Stroke order animation

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.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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