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  1. 1. see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luó bo]

Words Containing 卜

占卜
zhān bǔ

to divine

萝卜
luó bo

radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[bái luó bo]

一个萝卜一个坑
yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng

lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom)

前途未卜
qián tú wèi bǔ

hanging in the balance

卜卜米
bo bo mǐ

Rice Krispies

卜占
bǔ zhān

to divine; to prophesy; to foretell the future

卜卦
bǔ guà

to divine using the eight trigrams

卜问
bǔ wèn

to predict by divining; to consult the oracle

卜宅
bǔ zhái

to choose a capital by divination

卜居
bǔ jū

to choose a home

卜征
bǔ zhēng

to ask oracle for war forecast

卜昼卜夜
bǔ zhòu bǔ yè

day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)

卜甲
bǔ jiǎ

oracle tortoise shell

卜筮
bǔ shì

divination

卜课
bǔ kè

to divine by tossing coins

卜辞
bǔ cí

oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones

卜骨
bǔ gǔ

oracle bone

吉卜力工作室
jí bǔ lì gōng zuò shì

Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio

吉卜赛人
jí bǔ sài rén

Gypsy

大萝卜
dà luó bo

see 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[bái luó bo]

威卜
wēi bǔ

vaporizer (e-cigarette) (loanword)

小红萝卜
xiǎo hóng luó bo

summer radish (the small red kind)

小萝卜头
xiǎo luó bo tou

(coll.) little kid

心里美萝卜
xīn li měi luó bo

Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable

拉卜楞寺
lā bǔ léng sì

Labrang Monastery, Tibetan: bLa-brang bkra-shis-'khyil, in Xiahe county 夏河縣|夏河县[xià hé xiàn], Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet

拔出萝卜带出泥
bá chū luó bo dài chū ní

lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom)

易卜拉辛
yì bǔ lā xīn

Ibrahim (name)

易卜生
yì bǔ shēng

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家

未卜
wèi bǔ

not foreseen

未卜先知
wèi bǔ xiān zhī

predictable

李卜克内西
lǐ bo kè nèi xī

Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900), political activist and founding member of the German Socialist Party SPD

枚卜
méi bǔ

to choose officials by divination (archaic)

樱桃萝卜
yīng táo luó bo

summer radish (the small red kind)

水萝卜
shuǐ luó bo

summer radish (the small red kind)

白萝卜
bái luó bo

white radish

空心萝卜
kōng xīn luó bo

useless person

红萝卜
hóng luó bo

carrot

胡萝卜
hú luó bo

carrot

胡萝卜素
hú luó bo sù

carotene

花心大萝卜
huā xīn dà luó bo

(coll.) womanizer

萝卜快了不洗泥
luó bo kuài le bù xǐ ní

when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom)

萝卜白菜,各有所爱
luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài

(idiom) one man's meat is another man's poison; to each his own

萝卜糕
luó bo gāo

fried radish cake (a type of dim sum, commonly called \turnip cake\)

萝卜青菜,各有所爱
luó bo qīng cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài

see 蘿蔔白菜,各有所愛|萝卜白菜,各有所爱[luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài]

卖卜
mài bǔ

to do trade as a fortune teller

医卜
yī bǔ

medicine and divination

野胡萝卜
yě hú luó bo

carrot (Daucus carota)

阿卜杜拉
ā bǔ dù lā

Abdullah (name)

预卜
yù bǔ

to foretell; to predict