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Historical forms of the character 卜
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (卜) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

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	Old Chinese
仆	pʰoːɡs, pʰus, pʰoɡs, bɯːɡ, *pʰoːɡ
赴	*pʰoɡs
訃	*pʰoɡs
朴	*pʰroːɡ
圤	*pʰroːɡ
卜	*poːɡ
鳪	*poːɡ
扑	*pʰoːɡ
攴	pʰoːɡ, pʰroːɡ

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.

Etymology 1

More information simp. and trad., alternative forms ...

simp. and trad.	卜
alternative forms	𠁡𠁢

"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).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bǔ (bu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): buk¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): puk

(Meixian, Guangdong): bug⁵
Eastern Min (BUC): bók
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): borh⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pok / poh

(Teochew, Peng'im): bog⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷poq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bǔ
  - Wade–Giles: pu³
  - Yale: bǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buu
  - Palladius: бу (bu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: buk¹
  - Yale: būk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: buk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʊk̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: puk
  - Hakka Romanization System: bug^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: bug⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /puk̚²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: bug⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /pʊk̚¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: bók
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pouʔ²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: borh⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bo̤h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɒʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: borh⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɒʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pok
  - Tâi-lô: pok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pog
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pɔk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poh
  - Tâi-lô: poh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: poiq
  - IPA (Taipei): /poʔ³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɤʔ³²/

Note:

poh - also written as 博, incl. surname (Taiwan);
pok - incl. surname (Mainland).

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bog⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pok
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pok̚²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷poq
  - MiniDict: poh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴poq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /poʔ⁵⁵/

Dialectal data

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Variety	Location	edit 卜
Mandarin	Beijing	/pu²¹⁴/
Harbin	/pʰu²¹³/
Tianjin	/pʰu¹³/
Jinan	/pu⁵⁵/
Qingdao	/pu⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou	/pu⁵³/
Xi'an	/po²¹/
Xining	/pv̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan	/puə¹³/ 姓 /pu¹³/ ～算子
Lanzhou	/pə¹³/
Ürümqi	/pʰu⁵¹/
Wuhan	/pʰu²¹³/
Chengdu	/pu¹³/
Guiyang	/pʰu²¹/
Kunming	/pʰu³¹/
Nanjing	/puʔ⁵/
Hefei	/pʰəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pəʔ²/
Pingyao	/pʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot	/pəʔ⁴³/ ～拉 /pei⁵⁵/ 萝～
Wu	Shanghai	/poʔ⁵/
Suzhou	/poʔ⁵/
Hangzhou	/pʰoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou	/po²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/pɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi	/pʰu⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/pʰu²⁴/
Xiangtan	/pʰu²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/puk̚¹/
Taoyuan	/puk̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pok̚⁵/
Nanning	/pʰuk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong	/puk̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/pɔk̚³²/ /poʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/pɔuʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/pʰu²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew)	/pok̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese)	/ʔbɔk̚⁵/ /ʔbak̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: puwk

More information Rime, Character ...

Rime
Character	卜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	博木切
Baxter	puwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/puk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/puk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/puk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pəwk̚/
Li Rong	/puk̚/
Wang Li	/puk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/puk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	buk¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤok/

(Zhengzhang): /*poːɡ/

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Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ puwk ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁok/
English	divine (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卜
Reading #	1/1
No.	998
Phonetic component	卜
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	卜
Old Chinese	/*poːɡ/

Definitions

卜

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.
(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
(literary) to choose
卜宅 ― bǔzhái ― to choose a place to live

卜居 ― bǔjū ― to choose a place to live
a surname

Compounds

不卜可知
前途未卜
十卜 (sap6 bok1) (Cantonese)
卜人
卜兒 / 卜儿
卜卜
卜卦 (bǔguà)
卜吉
卜夜卜晝 / 卜夜卜昼
卜婿
卜宅
卜居 (bǔjū)
卜年 (bǔnián)
卜度
卜征
卜日
卜易
卜晝卜夜 / 卜昼卜夜
卜珓 (bǔjiào)
卜祝
卜窀穸
卜筮 (bǔshì)
卜算
卜築 / 卜筑
卜老
卜者
卜課 / 卜课 (bǔkè)
卜辭 / 卜辞 (bǔcí)
卜鄰 / 卜邻 (bǔlín)
占卜 (zhānbǔ)
吉凶未卜
吉卜賽人 / 吉卜赛人 (jíbǔsàirén)
問卜 / 问卜 (wènbǔ)
太卜
存亡未卜
成都賣卜 / 成都卖卜
拉卜楞
未卜 (wèibǔ)
未卜先知 (wèibǔxiānzhī)
枚卜
死生未卜
殷墟卜辭
求神問卜 / 求神问卜 (qiúshénwènbǔ)
油花卜
狼卜食
玉枝卜壽 / 玉枝卜寿
羊卜
老醫少卜 / 老医少卜
耳卜
貞卜文字 / 贞卜文字
貨卜 / 货卜
賣卜 / 卖卜
賣卜測字 / 卖卜测字
醫卜星相 / 医卜星相
響卜 / 响卜
預卜 / 预卜 (yùbǔ)
鳥卜 / 鸟卜
龜卜 / 龟卜 (guībǔ)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 卜 – see 蔔. (This character is the simplified form of 蔔).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.