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      Chinese Radicals Series卜bǔ

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      • Date 2020-10-24
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      The word 卜 means ‘to the divine’. In the Shang dynasty, more than 3,000 years ago, the people consulted the gods about a lot of things by heating the shoulder-blades of oxen or tortoise shells over fore until cracks appeared. The pictogram of this word represents such a crack.

      The word 卜 can be used in phrases meaning ‘to divine’, for example, 占卜 (zhānbǔ, ’to divine’),卜卦 (bǔguà, ‘to divine using the Eight Trigrams’).

      卜 can also be used as a component in word formation, mostly to indicate pronunciation, for example, 补 (bǔ, ‘to patch’), 赴 (fù, ’to attend’) and 讣 (fǔ, ‘obituary’). These words generally do not convey the original meaning of 卜.

      Idioms and phrases
      卜辞 bǔcí
      The message supposedly revealed by the gods in divination
      卜居 bǔjū
      To divine whether a house is suitable for living in
      卜算 bǔsuàn
      To foretell by divining
      生死未卜 shēngsǐwèibǔ
      Not knowing whether someone is alive or dead.

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