Radical 25

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{redirect|⼘|the four stroke diagrams for divination radical|Radical 89|the Japanese katakana character {{Lang|ja|ト}}|To (kana)|the Chinese surname|Bu (surname)}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|25|uni=535C

|meaning=divination

|pny= bǔ

|bopo= ㄅㄨˇ

|wade= pu3

|jyutping= buk1

|yale= būk

|poj= poh (col.)
pok (lit.)

|onyomi= ボク boku

|kunyomi= うらな-う urana-u

|jp= 卜の/ぼくのと bokunoto
占い/うらない uranai
/と to

|hang= 점 cheom

|hanja= 복 bok

|hanviet= bốc

}}

Radical 25 or radical divination ({{Lang|zh-Hant|卜部}}) is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 45 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|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. {{Linktext|⺊|lang=zh-Hans}} is the only associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component {{Lang|zh-Hans|卜}}.

In addition, {{Lang|zh-Hans|卜}} is also the simplified form of {{Linktext|蔔|lang=zh-Hans}} meaning "radish" or "carrot".

Evolution

File:卜-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:卜-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:卜-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:卜-seal.svg|Small seal script character

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卜}} {{Linktext|⺊}}
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| +2

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卝}} {{Linktext|卞}}
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| +3

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卟}} {{Linktext|占}} {{Linktext|卡}} {{Linktext|卢}}SC (={{Linktext|盧}} -> )
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| +5

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卣}} {{Linktext|卤}}SC (={{Linktext|鹵}} -> )
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卥}} {{Linktext|卦}}
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| +7

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卧}}SC/HK (={{Linktext|臥}} -> )
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卨}}

Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}