Radical 25

卜
24 ⼗ ◄	25th	► ⼙ 26
Pinyin :	bǔ (= oracles)
Zhuyin :	ㄅ ㄨ ˇ
Hiragana :	ぼ く の と bokunoto
Kanji :	卜 の ト bokunoto
Hangul :	점
Sinocorean :	복 puk
Codepoint :	U + 535C
Stroke sequence :

The radical 25 meaning " oracle " is one of the 23 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with two strokes. The sign is similar to the katakana sign ト "to".

With 8 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is very rare in the lexicon. The radical Oracle accepts only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 25th position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 16th position.

The character 卜 is one of the oldest characters and already appears in the oracle bone inscriptions . Most of the signs found under this radical have to do with divination such as:

character	Explanation
算卦	fortune telling
占卜	Fortune telling
八卦	eight oracle signs

The eight trigrams

The eight trigrams (八卦 bāguà = eight oracle signs) are symbols used for prophecy and form the basis of the ancient Chinese I Ching (易經 Yíjīng = book of changes ). They consist of three either solid (yáng) or broken (yīn) lines, resulting in 2 ³ = 8 possibilities, which are often represented in the form of a circle. Two trigrams result in one of the 2 ⁶ = 64 hexagrams. The meaning of each hexagram is described in the Book of Changes.

The symbol 卜 also functions as a sound carrier such as in

补 (= repair) or

卟 吩 (= porphine ).

In some other characters, however, such as with the family name 卢 or with 卡 (= to stop), 卜 only has the function of a general, distinguishing component.

The symbol compound 卤 is also used as an abbreviation for radical 197鹵.

Character compounds ruled by radical 25

Oracle bones

Strokes	character
+ 00	卜
+ 02	卝 卞
+ 03	卟 占 卡 卢
+ 05	卣 卤
+ 06	卥 卦
+ 07	卧
+ 09	卨

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 25 is coded under the code point number 12.056 (U + 2F18).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 78 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 25  - Graphic representations of Radikal 25

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 25 on page 9