卜
bǔ
#1,976 most
frequent character
(bound form) to divine
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
卜 bǔ is a drawing of cracks in a shell or bone used for divination. It first meant the process of cracking such shells or bones. It grew to mean fortune telling, then to guess or choose. The radish sense is a sound loan.
Drawn as: cracks in shell; cracks in bone
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