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Definitions

  1. 1. see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luó bo]

Words Containing 卜

白萝卜
bái luó bo

white radish

水萝卜
shuǐ luó bo

summer radish (the small red kind)

占卜
zhān bǔ

to divine

未卜先知
wèi bǔ xiān zhī

predictable

卜宅
bǔ zhái

to choose a capital by divination

前途未卜
qián tú wèi bǔ

hanging in the balance

预卜
yù bǔ

to foretell; to predict

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]

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

威卜
wēi bǔ

vaporizer (e-cigarette) (loanword)

易卜拉辛
yì bǔ lā xīn

Ibrahim (name)

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

萝卜糕
luó bo gāo

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

卜问
bǔ wèn

to predict by divining; to consult the oracle

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

卜卜米
bo bo mǐ

Rice Krispies

野胡萝卜
yě hú luó bo

carrot (Daucus carota)

樱桃萝卜
yīng táo luó bo

summer radish (the small red kind)

胡萝卜素
hú luó bo sù

carotene

枚卜
méi bǔ

to choose officials by divination (archaic)

卜占
bǔ zhān

to divine; to prophesy; to foretell the future

医卜
yī bǔ

medicine and divination

阿卜杜拉
ā bǔ dù lā

Abdullah (name)

花心大萝卜
huā xīn dà luó bo

(coll.) womanizer

未卜
wèi bǔ

not foreseen

卜骨
bǔ gǔ

oracle bone

一个萝卜一个坑
yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng

lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom)

卖卜
mài bǔ

to do trade as a fortune teller

吉卜赛人
jí bǔ sài rén

Gypsy

空心萝卜
kōng xīn luó bo

useless person

卜卦
bǔ guà

to divine using the eight trigrams

小红萝卜
xiǎo hóng luó bo

summer radish (the small red kind)

吉卜力工作室
jí bǔ lì gōng zuò shì

Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio

卜昼卜夜
bǔ zhòu bǔ yè

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

卜筮
bǔ shì

divination

红萝卜
hóng luó bo

carrot

易卜生
yì bǔ shēng

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

萝卜
luó bo

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

胡萝卜
hú luó bo

carrot

小萝卜头
xiǎo luó bo tou

(coll.) little kid

卜辞
bǔ cí

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

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)

大萝卜
dà luó bo

see 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[bái luó bo]

卜课
bǔ kè

to divine by tossing coins

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

卜居
bǔ jū

to choose a home

卜甲
bǔ jiǎ

oracle tortoise shell

卜征
bǔ zhēng

to ask oracle for war forecast