卜

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

1. Kangxi radical #25, ⼘.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/卜
• 处, 赴, 鳪, 盀, 下, 㓀
• 仆, 圤, 外, 扑, 朴, 㺪, 䃼, 补, 虲, 訃(讣), 䟔, 釙(钋)

• 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

Perhaps a pictogram (象形) 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 (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

"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).

卜

1. to divine

   卜卦  ―  bǔguà  ―  to divine

   卜筮  ―  bǔshì  ―  to divine

   卜辭／卜辞  ―  bǔcí  ―  divining inscription

   • 予惟乙卯，朝至于洛師。我卜河朔黎水。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     予惟乙卯，朝至于洛师。我卜河朔黎水。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, 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

   預卜／预卜  ―  yùbǔ  ―  to predict

   前途未卜  ―  qiántúwèibǔ  ―  the prospects are unknown

   生死未卜  ―  shēngsǐwèibǔ  ―  no one knows whether the person is dead or alive

3. (literary) to choose

   卜宅  ―  bǔzhái  ―  to choose a place to live

   卜居  ―  bǔjū  ―  to choose a place to live

4. a surname

• “卜”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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

卜(ぼく) • (boku) 

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

• 卜(ぼく)する (bokusuru, “tell fortunes”)

卜 (eumhun 점 복 (jeom bok))

1. hanja form^? of 복 (“to divine”)

卜 (bốc, phoóc)

1. Nôm form of bốc (“dry”).

   忒㳍𱺵㳍卜

   Rẳc bó là bó bốc

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. Nôm form of phoóc (“foolish”).

   坎󰝧宗𫰴卜

   Khảm khỉn tổng sao phoóc

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

卜 (fộc)

1. Nôm form of fộc.

• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

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

1. chữ Hán form of bốc (“Kangxi radical 25—‘divination’”)

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

卜

1. Sawndip form of boh

卜

1. Sawndip form of boux