Contact with the crew has been lost for three days; their fate is still unknown.
Tips
usage
Strongly dramatic. Reserved for real life-or-death uncertainty — missing people after disasters, soldiers lost in war, patients in critical condition. Don't use casually.
memory
卜 (bǔ) means divination — literally "whether alive or dead, not yet divined." In ancient times, families cast oracle bones to find news of the missing.
