蔔
bó

radish

Vegetables 艹 that are buried in the ground 匐; 匐 also provides the pronunciation

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass
匐
匐 SoundMeaning component
fú fall prostrate

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbɯːɡ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

卜 bo fortune telling Simplified

Pictograph of a crack on a bone. In ancient China such cracks were used for fortune-telling.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (3 of 10 verified)

补扑仆赴朴讣卟钋攴訃

Iconic (4)

外占畏斦

Simplified (2)

处盐

Meaning (1 of 2 verified)

卦卟

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

圤

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpuwkpˤok divine (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“卜，灼剥龜也。象灸龜之形。一曰象龜兆之從橫也。，古文卜。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)