U+535C "卜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
卜
U+535C "卜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logograph representing the Chinese character for divination or fortune-telling, historically used in oracle bone script as a pictograph of a crack on a tortoise shell or bone, which was interpreted to foretell the future. It is classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and carries the semantic meaning of "to divine" or "to foretell," often appearing in compounds related to prediction and consultation in East Asian languages. Its stroke count is two, making it a simple yet culturally significant character that dates back to ancient Chinese writing systems and remains in contemporary usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+535C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 卜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 卜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8D 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x535C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000535C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u535c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A452 |
| kCCCII | 213465 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4433 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4433 |
| kCangjie | Y |
| kCantonese | baak6 |
| kCihaiT | 223.302 |
| kCowles | 3400 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0361.150 |
| kDefinition | fortune telling; prophesy |
| kEACC | 275573 |
| kFanqie | 博木 |
| kFenn | 119D |
| kFennIndex | 423.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2300.0 |
| kGB0 | 1823 |
| kGB1 | 1823 |
| kGSR | 1210a |
| kHangul | 복:0E |
| kHanYu | 10091.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bo(25) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10091.110:bǔ,pū,bo |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼘[U+2F18]:10091.110 |
| kHKGlyph | 0438 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0361.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10091.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0157.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3237 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A452 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4B4E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DEBE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5C54 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4433 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D6F |
| kJapanese | ボク ホク うらない うらなう ぼくのと |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:8 |
| kJapaneseKun | URANAU URANAI |
| kJapaneseOn | BOKU |
| kJis0 | 4346 |
| kKangXi | 0157.250 |
| kKorean | POK |
| kLau | 157 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0592 |
| kMandarin | bo bǔ |
| kMatthews | 5378 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2512 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007866 |
| kMorohashi | 02774 |
| kNelson | 0797 |
| kPhonetic | 1004 1094 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3708+25.2.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 25.0 |
| kSBGY | 452.23 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "卜" U+535C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 76.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bǔ粵buk1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0592 |
| kTang | *buk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 028.080:bo 028.130:bǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 2 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "卜" U+535C CJK Unified Ideograph-# "蔔" U+8514 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | bốc |
| kXerox | 256:335 |
| kXHC1983 | 0085.090:bo 0086.030:bǔ |