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Kanji Detail for 卜 - "divine, fortune-telling, choose"
卜
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Meaning
卜 means "divine, fortune-telling, choose."
Divine - To practice divination; to foretell.
Fortune-telling - Predicting the future.
Choose - To select after consideration.
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Tattoo check: 卜
- Verified meaning: divine, fortune-telling, choose
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read うらべ, すえたか, すえよし, ほうりん)
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 卜
Surnames 卜(うらべ)
卜(すえたか)
卜(すえよし)
卜(ほうりん)
卜(ぼく)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
divining; fortune-telling; divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
fortune telling; prophesy
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Bu
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
divination, fortune-telling; prophecy
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Asking the tortoise shell is called 卜. Meaning wanting to know the fortune of a matter, burning the tortoise shell to obtain omens. (Book of Documents) "Divining among the meritorious officials, following only what is auspicious." Meaning trying to divine among all officials who would be most auspicious. Later generations appointing prime ministers called it 枚卜, originating from this. | All omens are called 卜. Such as divining fair or foul weather by the calls of insects and birds. Today, anticipated outcomes are called 定卜, unknown outcomes are called 未卜. Often used in correspondence.
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