Keyword
to divine
- divination
- fortune-telling
- prophecy
- Frequency
- #2284
- Strokes
- 2
Readings
bo
Mnemonic
A crack on an oracle bone
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
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Used in vocabulary
卜
(bound form) to divine
胡萝卜
carrot
萝卜
radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. daikon
占卜
to divine
阿卜杜拉
Abdullah (name)
易卜拉欣
(name) Ibrahim or Ebrahim; Ibrahim, a revered prophet in Islam, known as Abraham in the Judeo-Christian tradition
胡萝卜素
carotene
未卜
(literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable
吉卜赛人
Gypsy
易卜生
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家
红萝卜
carrot; red radish
卜辞
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
白萝卜
daikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
卜筮
divination
卜卦
to divine using the eight trigrams
未卜先知
(idiom) to foresee the future (without divination); to know beforehand through uncanny insight
拉卜楞寺
Labrang Monastery, Tibetan: bLa-brang bkra-shis-'khyil, in Xiahe county 夏河县 (XiàhéXiàn), Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet
小萝卜头
(coll.) kid; little tyke
预卜
to foretell; to predict
卜骨
oracle bone
卜居
to choose a home
一个萝卜一个坑
lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom); fig. each person has his own position; each to his own; horses for courses; every kettle has its lid