(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

down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action

= + : Mnemonic symbol: from the up/down logic, and a little bit the shape of the character, a ladder.

Xi Shi (xi) is on a retreat in the ashram. Using a voodoo staff (卜), she divined that next (下) week she'll have to play the flute (一) sixteen hours per day. Because she hates playing the flute, she climbs over the ashram's bathroom (a4) wall using a ladder (下) to escape.
to block / to be stuck / to be wedged / customs station / a clip / a fastener / a checkpost / Taiwan pr. [ka3]
to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4] / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]) / cassette

= + : Karl Marx (k) wants to destroy capitalism by crushing credit cards (卡) with a voodoo staff (卜) and by stomping on (上) them in the ashram (a3).
to take possession of / to occupy / to take up

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a yellow umbrella. James II of England occupies the anthill's bathroom (an4). He uses a pennant (⺊) stuck into a mandarin (口) to mark his territory, and stands there proudly with a yellow umbrella (占).
variant of 占[zhan4]
to observe / to divine
Celtis sinensis var. japonica
surname Piao / Korean surname (Park, Pak, or Bak) / also pr. [Pu2]
plain and simple / Taiwan pr. [pu2]

= + : Petra Penguin (pu) celebrates a very plain and simple (朴) Christmas in the space station (Ø3). She has a simple Christmas tree (木) and to let it snow she simply (朴) beats the Christmas tree with a voodoo staff (卜) so that its needles will come off and float all around.
servant

= + : Petra Pinguin (pu) is acting as Rosa Luxemburg's (亻) servant (仆) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2), but because she is very sloppy, Rosa often beats her with a voodoo staff (卜).
to fall forward / to fall prostrate

= + : After a long day at work Petra Penguin (pu) leaves the space station (Ø1), stumbles over a voodoo staff (卜) and falls forward (仆). On earth she would just fall prostrate (仆), but in outer space she just continues tumbling on and on until Rosa Luxemburg (亻) comes to her rescue.
to go / to visit (e.g. another country) / to attend (a banquet etc)

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) wants to go to another country (赴) to attend a banquet (赴) she has been invited to. Just inside the space station's entrance (Ø4) she grabs her voodoo staff (卜) and her Nordic walking pole (走) as walking aids and heads off.

Words with 卜

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?
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 divine; to prophesy; to foretell the future
to divine using the eight trigrams
to predict by divining; to consult the oracle

Sentences with 卜

卜 currently does not appear in any sentence.