This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
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Vocabulary
卜辞
bǔ cí
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
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