卜

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/卜

Glyph origin
Perhaps a of a crack in an, used for divination in ancient China.

Officially adopted as the simplified form of in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme  in 1956.

Etymology 1
"Cracking" of a bone or tortoise shell in fire: "to divine by oracle bone". Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (STEDT).

Definitions

 * 1) to divine
 * 2)  to foretell; to predict
 * 3)  to choose
 * 1)  to choose
 * 1)  to choose

Noun

 * 1)  fortune-telling
 * 2)  choosing

Verb

 * 1) ăn bốc (咹卜, to eat with the fingers)