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= 卜のト/ぼくのと bokunoto
占い/うらない uranai
ト/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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| +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}} -> 皿) |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卣}} {{Linktext|卤}}SC (={{Linktext|鹵}} -> 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}} -> 臣) |
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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 }}