卜

Meaning

卜 centers on seeking hidden knowledge through signs: divining, fortune-telling, or reading omens. The radical sense is the same shape used as a component in other characters.

• 卜うら

  fortune-telling; divination

• 卜ぼく

  divining; telling a fortune; predicting

• 亀卜きぼく

  tortoise-shell divination (in ancient China and Japan)

• 卜するぼくする

  to tell (a person's) fortune; to divine

• 卜人ぼくじん

  fortune teller; diviner

• 卜伝流ぼくでんりゅう

  Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)

• 卜占ぼくせん

  fortune-telling; divination; augury

• 卜定ぼくじょう

  deciding through (tortoise-shell) divination

• 卜居ぼっきょ

  choosing a homesite by divination

• 卜筮ぼくぜい

  fortunetelling; divination

• 卜者ぼくしゃ

  fortune teller; soothsayer; diviner

• 卜術ぼくじゅつ

  fortune-telling; divination

• 卜骨ぼっこつ

  fortune-telling using animal bones

• 占卜せんぼく

  divination; fortunetelling; soothsaying

• 売卜ばいぼく

  fortunetelling (as an occupation)

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