卜

   Harry Potter does 卜

X535C 卜 is Unicode character number 21340, KanjiLibera, JapanTo.

卜 may be pronounced as ボク, うらなう, うらない and denote divining, fortune telling.

卜 is easy to confuse with other characters of JapanTo.

JapanTo

    卜 by Jisho

JapanTo is set of the following Unicode characters:

X2F18 ⼘ , KanjiRadical

X30C8 ト , KatakanaTo

X535C 卜 , KanjiLiberal

Characters X2F18 ⼘ , X30C8 ト , X535C 卜 look similar.
Even a native Japanese speaker, watching ⼘ ト 卜, is unlikely to answer:
Which or them is X2F18?
Which or them is X30C8?
Which or them is X535C?

In such a case, the correct specification is "X2F18 ⼘ or X30C8 ト or X535C 卜"

Term JapanTo is defined in the preamble as substitute of this (long and complicated) construction.

Character X535C 卜 seems to be more usual among other JapanTo characters.

Ononym

Character X30C8 ト (KatakanaTa) appears as homonym of X535C 卜:

it has similar picture, but different pronunciation (ta) and different meaning, denoting more sound than any material object.

Synonyms

Character X2F18 ⼘ seems to be the closest synonym of X535C 卜 :
it has similar picture, similar pronunciations and similar meanings.

Other synonyms are

X6613 易, XF9E0 易 and X5360 占.

They have different pictures and pronunciation (although X6613 易, XF9E0 易 look similar to each other), but similar meaning.

Jisho

Jisho suggests:

卜 2 strokes

Radical: divination 卜

Parts: 卜

divining, fortune-telling, divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)

Kun: うらな.う、 うらない
On: ボク
On reading compounds
卜 【ボク】 divining, telling a fortune, predicting, choosing, settling, fixing
卜者 【ボクシャ】 fortune teller, soothsayer, diviner
売卜 【バイボク】 fortunetelling (as an occupation)
亀卜 【キボク】 tortoise-shell divination
Kun reading compounds
占う 【うらなう】 to tell someone's fortune, to forecast, to predict, to divine
占い 【うらない】 fortune-telling, divination

Nihongomaster

Nihongomaster suggests:

Definition of 卜 divining fortune-telling divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)

Readings On'Yomi (音読み) ボク

Kun'yomi (訓読み) うらなう うらない

Popular Words With This Kanji

占い, 卜, うらない fortune-telling, divination

卜, 占, うら fortune-telling, divination

卜者, ぼくしゃ fortuneteller, soothsayer, diviner

卜占, ぼくせん augury, fortune-telling, divination

占卜, せんぼく divination, fortunetelling, soothsaying

卜う, うらなう to tell a fortune, to predict, to choose, to settle, to fix

卜する, ぼくする to tell (a person's) fortune, to divine, to fix, to choose

卜居, ぼっきょ choosing a homesite by divination

卜骨, ぼっこつ fortune-telling using animal bones

卜伝流, ぼくでんりゅう Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)

Charles Kelly

Charles Kelly suggests:

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Kotobank

Kotobank suggests:

〘他サ変〙 ぼく・す 〘他サ変〙

① うらなう。うらないさだめる。うらなってする。 ※新儀式（963頃）四「或令三神祇官卜二其祟一」 ※中華若木詩抄（1520頃）下「周易と云者は、あらかじめ、人の是非得失を、卜(ホク)する者也」

② 判断する。また、さだめる。 ※文明論之概略（1875）〈福沢諭吉〉二「其人民の喜悦する有様を見て地方の人心を卜す可らず」

ぼく【卜】

〘名〙 亀の甲や獣骨を焼いて生じるひび割れの形によって、将来の吉凶を判断すること。占って物事を選び定めること。占い。 ※保元（1220頃か）下「亀の卜と易の卜との浅深を論じ給ひけり」 〔書経‐盤庚下〕 ぼく‐・す【卜】

〘他サ変〙 ⇒ぼくする（卜）

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デジタル大辞泉「卜」の解説

ぼく【卜】［漢字項目］

［人名用漢字］　［音］ボク（慣）　［訓］うらなう

１ 亀(かめ)の甲を用いて吉凶を判断すること。一般に、うらない。うらなう。「卜辞・卜占／亀卜(きぼく)・筮卜(ぜいぼく)・売卜」

２ 選び定める。「卜居・卜宅」

［難読］卜部(うらべ)

ぼく【×卜】

亀甲や獣骨を焼いて生じるひびの形により事の吉凶をうらなうこと。また一般に、うらなうこと。うらない。

References

Keywords

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