Radical 25

卜
卜
卜 (U+535C) "divination"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	bǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄅㄨˇ
Wade–Giles:	pu3
Cantonese Yale:	būk
Jyutping:	buk1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	poh (col.); pok (lit.)
Japanese Kana:	ボク boku (on'yomi); うらな-う urana-u (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	복 bok
Names
Japanese name(s):	卜のト/ぼくのと bokunoto; 占い/うらない uranai; ト/と to
Hangul:	점 cheom
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Radical 25 or radical divination (卜部) is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 45 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

卜 is also the 9th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. ⺊ is the only associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component 卜.

In addition, 卜 is also the simplified form of 蔔 meaning "radish" or "carrot".

Evolution

Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.