Mnemonic comic for

Translation

bǔ = bu + Ø3: (bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff. Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.

All translations for 卜

(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]

卜 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).

Characters with 卜 as component

wine container
used in old names / phonetic seol used in Korean names
second-round simplified character for 餐[can1]
old variant of 歹[dai3]

Words with 卜

to divine / to prophecy / to foretell the future
to divine using the trigrams / fortune telling
to predict by divining / to look into the future
to choose a capital by divination / to choose a home / to choose one's burial place by divination
to choose a home
to ask oracle for war forecast
day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
oracle tortoise shell
divination / fortune telling
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
oracle bone / bone used for divination, esp. animal scapula
see 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[bai2 luo2 bo5]
vaporizer (e-cigarette) (loanword)
lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom) / fig. each person has his own position / each to his own / horses for courses / every kettle has its lid
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?

Sentences with 卜

卜 currently does not appear in any sentence.