An apparatus includes processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry locates luma units of a luma coding unit that are co-located with chroma units of a chroma coding unit, and then determines a popularity of an intra block copy mode in the luma units. Further, the processing circuitry determines a block vector for a chroma unit in the chroma coding unit when the popularity meets a requirement, and reconstructs at least one sample of the chroma unit according to the block vector.