字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Communication & Thought
卜
卜 divination, fortune telling
ぼく boku
2 strokesRadical of 1 kanjiPart of 10
Your ink in 卜0% painted · 0 of 1 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
Perhaps a pictogram (象形) of a crack in an oracle bone, used for divination in ancient China.
Source: Wiktionary, 卜 (rev. 89983682), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Crack! Under the intense heat of the ritual fire, a secret path is revealed. This tiny two-stroke radical carries the weight of ancient mysteries and the search for answers. When you see it, think of someone trying to peer into the unknown or making a vital choice based on a sign from above.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates divination, predicting the future, asking for a sign, or the concept of a "point" or a specific "mark."
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 卜, with sourced origins
- 占fortune-tellingセン · しめる
卜 + 口
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 卜 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 1 kanji