"卜" meaning in Chinese

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Character

IPA: /pu²¹⁴/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /pʊk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /puk̚²/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /pʊk̚¹/ [Hakka, Meixian, Sinological-IPA], /pouʔ²⁴/ [Fuzhou, Sinological-IPA], /pɔk̚⁵/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /pɔk̚³²/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou], /poʔ³²/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /pɤʔ³²/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /pok̚²/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /pu²¹⁴/, /pʊk̚⁵/, /puk̚²/, /pʊk̚¹/, /pouʔ²⁴/, /pɔk̚⁵/, /pɔk̚³²/, /poʔ³²/, /pɤʔ³²/, /pok̚²/, /poʔ⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: bǔ [Mandarin, Pinyin], bu³ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄅㄨˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo], buk¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], puk [Hakka, PFS, Sixian], bug⁵ [Guangdong, Hakka, Meixian], bók, pok [Hokkien, POJ], poh [Hokkien, POJ], bog⁴ [Peng'im, Teochew], ⁷poq, bǔ [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], bǔ [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], pu³ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], bǔ [Mandarin, Yale], buu [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], бу [Mandarin, Palladius], bu [Mandarin, Palladius], būk [Cantonese, Yale], buk⁷ [Cantonese, Pinyin], bug¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], puk [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], bug` [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], bug⁵ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], bók [Foochow-Romanized, Fuzhou], pok [Hokkien, Tai-lo], pog [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], poh [Hokkien, Tai-lo], poiq [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], pok [POJ, Teochew], ⁷poq [Wu], poh^入 [Wu], ⁴poq [Wu], /poʔ⁵⁵/ [Wu], puwk [Middle-Chinese], /*pˤok/ [Baxter-Sagart, Old-Chinese], /*poːɡ/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Etymology: "Cracking" of a bone or tortoise shell in fire: "to divine by oracle bone" (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Galo -`buk (“to burst”), Galo -`puk (“to pop”), Mizo puak (“to explode; to burst”) (STEDT). Etymology templates: {{zh-ref|Schuessler, 2007}} Schuessler, 2007, {{cog|adl|-`buk||to burst}} Galo -`buk (“to burst”), {{cog|adl|-`puk||to pop}} Galo -`puk (“to pop”), {{cog|lus|puak||to explode; to burst}} Mizo puak (“to explode; to burst”) Head templates: {{head|zh|hanzi}} 卜
  1. to divine
    Sense id: en-卜-zh-character-s-7g9unY
  2. (literary) to foretell; to predict Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-卜-zh-character-IDjZMEe-
  3. (literary) to choose Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-卜-zh-character-icCivRd5
  4. a surname
    Sense id: en-卜-zh-character-v2O7m9sM Categories (other): Chinese surnames, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 0 14 27 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: 不卜可知, 前途未卜, 十卜 (sap6 bok1) [Cantonese], 卜人, 卜兒, 卜儿, 卜卜, 卜卦 (bǔguà), 卜吉, 卜夜卜晝, 卜夜卜昼, 卜婿, 卜宅, 卜居 (bǔjū), 卜年 (bǔnián), 卜度, 卜征, 卜日, 卜易, 卜晝卜夜, 卜昼卜夜, 卜珓 (bǔjiào), 卜祝, 卜窀穸, 卜筮 (bǔshì), 卜算, 卜築, 卜筑, 卜老, 卜者, 卜課 (bǔkè), 卜课 (bǔkè), 卜辭 (bǔcí), 卜辞 (bǔcí), 卜鄰 (bǔlín), 卜邻 (bǔlín), 占卜 (zhānbǔ), 吉凶未卜, 吉卜賽人 (jíbǔsàirén), 吉卜赛人 (jíbǔsàirén), 問卜 (wènbǔ), 问卜 (wènbǔ), 太卜, 存亡未卜, 成都賣卜, 成都卖卜, 拉卜楞, 未卜 (wèibǔ), 未卜先知 (wèibǔxiānzhī), 枚卜, 死生未卜, 殷墟卜辭, 求神問卜 (qiúshénwènbǔ), 求神问卜 (qiúshénwènbǔ), 油花卜, 狼卜食, 玉枝卜壽, 玉枝卜寿, 羊卜, 老醫少卜, 老医少卜, 耳卜, 貞卜文字, 贞卜文字, 貨卜, 货卜, 賣卜, 卖卜, 賣卜測字, 卖卜测字, 醫卜星相, 医卜星相, 響卜, 响卜, 預卜 (yùbǔ), 预卜 (yùbǔ), 鳥卜, 鸟卜, 龜卜 (guībǔ), 龟卜 (guībǔ)

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      "word": "不卜可知"
    },
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      "word": "前途未卜"
    },
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      "roman": "sap6 bok1",
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      ],
      "word": "十卜"
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      "word": "卜人"
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      "word": "卜兒"
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      "roman": "bǔguà",
      "word": "卜卦"
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      "word": "卜吉"
    },
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      "word": "卜夜卜晝"
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      "word": "卜夜卜昼"
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      "word": "卜婿"
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    {
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      "word": "卜宅"
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    {
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      "roman": "bǔjū",
      "word": "卜居"
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    {
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      "roman": "bǔnián",
      "word": "卜年"
    },
    {
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      "word": "卜度"
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    {
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      "word": "卜征"
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      "word": "卜日"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卜易"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卜晝卜夜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卜昼卜夜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "bǔjiào",
      "word": "卜珓"
    },
    {
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      "word": "卜祝"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卜窀穸"
    },
    {
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      "roman": "bǔshì",
      "word": "卜筮"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卜算"
    },
    {
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      "word": "卜築"
    },
    {
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      "word": "卜筑"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卜老"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卜者"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "bǔkè",
      "word": "卜課"
    },
    {
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      "roman": "bǔkè",
      "word": "卜课"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "bǔcí",
      "word": "卜辭"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "bǔcí",
      "word": "卜辞"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "bǔlín",
      "word": "卜鄰"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "bǔlín",
      "word": "卜邻"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "zhānbǔ",
      "word": "占卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "吉凶未卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "jíbǔsàirén",
      "word": "吉卜賽人"
    },
    {
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      "roman": "jíbǔsàirén",
      "word": "吉卜赛人"
    },
    {
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      "roman": "wènbǔ",
      "word": "問卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "wènbǔ",
      "word": "问卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "太卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "存亡未卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "成都賣卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "成都卖卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "拉卜楞"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "wèibǔ",
      "word": "未卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "wèibǔxiānzhī",
      "word": "未卜先知"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "枚卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "死生未卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "殷墟卜辭"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "qiúshénwènbǔ",
      "word": "求神問卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "qiúshénwènbǔ",
      "word": "求神问卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "油花卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "狼卜食"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "玉枝卜壽"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "玉枝卜寿"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "羊卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "老醫少卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "老医少卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "耳卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "貞卜文字"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "贞卜文字"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "貨卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "货卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "賣卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卖卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "賣卜測字"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "卖卜测字"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "醫卜星相"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "医卜星相"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "響卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "响卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "yùbǔ",
      "word": "預卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "yùbǔ",
      "word": "预卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "鳥卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "鸟卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "guībǔ",
      "word": "龜卜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "guībǔ",
      "word": "龟卜"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Schuessler, 2007"
      },
      "expansion": "Schuessler, 2007",
      "name": "zh-ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "adl",
        "2": "-`buk",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to burst"
      },
      "expansion": "Galo -`buk (“to burst”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "adl",
        "2": "-`puk",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to pop"
      },
      "expansion": "Galo -`puk (“to pop”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "puak",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to explode; to burst"
      },
      "expansion": "Mizo puak (“to explode; to burst”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "\"Cracking\" of a bone or tortoise shell in fire: \"to divine by oracle bone\" (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Galo -`buk (“to burst”), Galo -`puk (“to pop”), Mizo puak (“to explode; to burst”) (STEDT).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "hanzi"
      },
      "expansion": "卜",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "On the day Yi-mao, I came in the morning to this capital of Luo. I (first) divined by the shell concerning (the ground about) the li-water on the north of the He.",
          "ref": "予惟乙卯,朝至于洛師。我卜河朔黎水。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "予惟乙卯,朝至于洛师。我卜河朔黎水。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: The Book of Documents, circa 4ᵗʰ – 3ʳᵈ century BCE\nYǔ wéi yǐmǎo, zhāo zhì yú Luòshī. Wǒ bǔ Héshuò Lí shuǐ. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to divine"
      ],
      "id": "en-卜-zh-character-s-7g9unY",
      "links": [
        [
          "divine",
          "divine"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "no one knows whether the person is dead of alive",
          "roman": "shēngsǐwèibǔ",
          "text": "生死未卜",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to foretell; to predict"
      ],
      "id": "en-卜-zh-character-IDjZMEe-",
      "links": [
        [
          "foretell",
          "foretell"
        ],
        [
          "predict",
          "predict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) to foretell; to predict"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to choose a place to live",
          "roman": "bǔjū",
          "text": "卜居",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to choose"
      ],
      "id": "en-卜-zh-character-icCivRd5",
      "links": [
        [
          "choose",
          "choose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) to choose"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 14 27 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a surname"
      ],
      "id": "en-卜-zh-character-v2O7m9sM",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bu³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "buk¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "PFS",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "puk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Guangdong",
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bug⁵"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "bók"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pok"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "poh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bog⁴"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "⁷poq"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pu³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "buu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "бу"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bu"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu²¹⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "būk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "buk⁷"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bug¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʊk̚⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "puk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bug`"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bug⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʊk̚¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Foochow-Romanized",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/pu²¹⁴/"
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      "ipa": "/pʊk̚⁵/"
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      "ipa": "/puk̚²/"
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      "ipa": "/pʊk̚¹/"
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      "ipa": "/pouʔ²⁴/"
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      "ipa": "/pɔk̚⁵/"
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      "ipa": "/pɔk̚³²/"
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      "ipa": "/pɤʔ³²/"
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      "word": "前途未卜"
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      "word": "卜儿"
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      "word": "卜卜"
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      "roman": "bǔguà",
      "word": "卜卦"
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      "word": "卜吉"
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      "word": "卜夜卜晝"
    },
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      "word": "卜夜卜昼"
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      "word": "卜婿"
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      "word": "卜宅"
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      "roman": "bǔjū",
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      "word": "卜度"
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      "word": "卜征"
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      "word": "卜日"
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      "word": "卜易"
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      "word": "卜晝卜夜"
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      "word": "卜昼卜夜"
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      "word": "卜珓"
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      "word": "卜祝"
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      "word": "卜窀穸"
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      "word": "卜算"
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      "word": "卜築"
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    {
      "word": "卜筑"
    },
    {
      "word": "卜老"
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    {
      "word": "卜者"
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      "roman": "bǔkè",
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      "roman": "bǔkè",
      "word": "卜课"
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      "word": "卜辭"
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      "roman": "bǔcí",
      "word": "卜辞"
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      "roman": "bǔlín",
      "word": "卜鄰"
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      "roman": "bǔlín",
      "word": "卜邻"
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      "roman": "zhānbǔ",
      "word": "占卜"
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      "word": "吉凶未卜"
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      "roman": "jíbǔsàirén",
      "word": "吉卜賽人"
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      "roman": "jíbǔsàirén",
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      "roman": "wènbǔ",
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    {
      "roman": "wènbǔ",
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      "word": "太卜"
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      "word": "存亡未卜"
    },
    {
      "word": "成都賣卜"
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    {
      "word": "成都卖卜"
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    {
      "word": "拉卜楞"
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      "roman": "wèibǔ",
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      "roman": "wèibǔxiānzhī",
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      "word": "枚卜"
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      "word": "死生未卜"
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      "word": "殷墟卜辭"
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      "roman": "qiúshénwènbǔ",
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      "roman": "qiúshénwènbǔ",
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      "word": "油花卜"
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      "word": "狼卜食"
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      "word": "玉枝卜壽"
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      "word": "玉枝卜寿"
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      "word": "羊卜"
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      "word": "老醫少卜"
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      "word": "老医少卜"
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      "word": "貞卜文字"
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      "word": "貨卜"
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      "word": "货卜"
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      "word": "賣卜"
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      "word": "賣卜測字"
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      "word": "卖卜测字"
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    {
      "word": "醫卜星相"
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    {
      "word": "医卜星相"
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    {
      "word": "響卜"
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      "word": "响卜"
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      "roman": "yùbǔ",
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    {
      "word": "鳥卜"
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      "word": "鸟卜"
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    {
      "roman": "guībǔ",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (8203a16 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.