Radical 25
Chinese character radical
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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)
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| 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: | ボク boku (on'yomi) うらな-う urana-u (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 복 bok |
| Hán-Việt: | bốc |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 卜のト/ぼくのと bokunoto 占い/うらない uranai ト/と to |
| Hangul: | 점 cheom |
| Stroke order animation | |
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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.
In addition, 卜 is also the simplified form of 蔔 meaning "radish" or "carrot".
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
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: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- 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.
External links
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