a chemical compound

To speak  of the future  also provides the pronunciation

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

卜 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

bo

  

fortune telling

Evolution

卟 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
卟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
卟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

a chemical compound; divination; to consider; see 卟啉, porphyrin; see 卟吩, porphin

Most common words with 卟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

see 卟啉, porphyrin

卟啉

porphyrin (organic chemical essential to hemoglobin and chlorophyll) (loanword)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5213th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+535F

Shuowen

“卟,卜以問疑也。从口、卜。讀與稽同。《書》云:‘卟疑’。”


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