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Radically 25

That Radically 25 with the meaning Orakel is one of 21 traditional radicals that Chinese writing, which are written with two lines.

With 8 indication connections in Mathews' Chinese English Dictionary it occurs only very rarely in the encyclopedia.

(Consider: The radical Orakel takes only in that Long character-List of traditional radicals, which consists of 214 radicals, the 25. Position. In modern Abbreviation- It can be to dictionaries in completely different place. In New Chinese-German dictionary from the People's Republic China stands it for example at 16. Place.)

The character 卜 is one of the oldest characters and dips already into that Orakelknocheninschriften up. Most under this radical to finding indications have to do with fortune-telling like for example:

Those Eight Trigramme (八卦 bāguà = eight Orakelzeichen) serving symbols are to the pointing saying, which the basis of the old-Chinese I went (易經 Yíjīng = Book of the transformations) form. They consist three either pulled through (Yáng) of or broken through (Yīn) lines, from which 23 = 8 possibilities result, which are often represented in form of a circle. Two Trigramme result in one of the 64 (82) Hexagramme. The meaning of each hexadecimal gram is described in the book of the transformations.

The indication 卜 functions also as sound carrier like for example in

补 (= repair) or

卟吩 (= Porphin).

Into some other indications however, as with the surname 卢 or with 卡 (= stop) 卜 only the function comes to a general, differentiating component.

Character connections

Literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli: “Painted words. 214 Chinese characters “. ISBN 3937715347
• Leyi left: “Development of the Chinese writing by the example of 500 characters “. ISBN 7561902069
• Cecilia Lindquist: “A world from indications “. ISBN 342626482X