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卜

bǔ

Character

What 卜 means

1. bound formto divine

Other readings

卜 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• bóused in {萝卜|luó bo}
• Bǔsurname Bu

Example sentences

• 她讨厌胡萝卜。
  She hates carrots.
• 胡萝卜多少钱？
  How much do the carrots cost?
• 胡萝卜我来切吧。
  Let me cut the carrots.
• 让我来切胡萝卜。
  Let me cut the carrots.
• 胡萝卜要三美元。
  The carrots cost three dollars.
• 白兔喜欢吃胡萝卜。
  Rabbits like to eat carrots.

Words starting with 卜

• 卜占bǔ zhānto divine; to prophesy; to foretell the future
• 卜问bǔ wènto predict by divining; to consult the oracle
• 卜宅bǔ zháito choose a capital by divination; to choose a home…
• 卜居bǔ jūto choose a home
• 卜征bǔ zhēngto ask oracle for war forecast
• 卜甲bǔ jiǎoracle tortoise shell
• 卜课bǔ kèto divine by tossing coins
• 卜辞bǔ cíoracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or…
• 卜骨bǔ gǔoracle bone
• 卜卜米Bo bo mǐRice Krispies
• 卜昼卜夜bǔ zhòu bǔ yèday and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
• 卜卦bǔ guàto divine using the eight trigrams
• 卜筮bǔ shìdivination

Words containing 卜

• 萝卜luó boradish (Raphanus sativus), esp. daikon
• 胡萝卜hú luó bocarrot
• 占卜zhān bǔto divine
• 小萝卜头xiǎo luó bo tou(colloquial) kid; little tyke
• 未卜wèi bǔ(literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable
• 红萝卜hóng luó bocarrot; red radish
• 白萝卜bái luó bodaikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
• 威卜wēi bǔvaporizer (e-cigarette) (loanword)
• 卖卜mài bǔto do trade as a fortune teller
• 医卜yī bǔmedicine and divination
• 预卜yù bǔto foretell; to predict
• 易卜生Yì bǔ shēngHenrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家
• 前途未卜qián tú wèi bǔhanging in the balance; the future is hard to forecast; ¿Qué serà?
• 吉卜赛人Jí bǔ sài rénGypsy
• 易卜拉欣Yì bǔ lā xīn(name) Ibrahim or Ebrahim; Ibrahim, a revered prophet in Islam, known as Abraham in the…
• 未卜先知wèi bǔ xiān zhī(idiom) to foresee the future (without divination)…
• 李卜克内西Lǐ bo kè nèi xīWilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900), political activist and founding member of the German…
• 吉卜力工作室Jí bǔ lì Gōng zuò shìStudio Ghibli, Japanese film studio
• 枚卜méi bǔto choose officials by divination (archaic); to practice divination without a definite…
• 水萝卜shuǐ luó bosmall red radish
• 萝卜糕luó bo gāoradish cake (a type of dim sum, commonly called "turnip cake")
• 小红萝卜xiǎo hóng luó bosmall red radish
• 空心萝卜kōng xīn luó bouseless person
• 胡萝卜素hú luó bo sùcarotene

Sounds the same

Read bǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 补to repair; to patch; to mend
• 捕to catch; to seize; to capture
• 哺to feed
• 堡village (used in place names)
• 卟used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds porphyrin 卟啉
• 𬷕used in 地𬷕dì bǔ