漢字Kanji · in Communication & Thought
占: fortune-telling, divining
Also: forecasting, occupy, hold, have, get, take
JLPT N25 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
卜 carries the meaning · 口 is drawn in
5 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 占星術せんせいじゅつastrology
- 占領地せんりょうちoccupied territory
- 占拠するせんきょするoccupy
- 占有するせんゆうするhave exclusive possession
- 独占するどくせんするmonopolize
しめるshimeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 占めるしめるcomprise, occupy
- 独り占めするひとりじめするmonopolize
うらなうuranau · kun'yomi
- 占ううらなうtell one's fortune, divine
- 占い師うらないしdiviner, fortuneteller, palmist
- 星占いほしうらないastrology, horoscope
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)卜 divination + 口 mouth
Source: Wiktionary, 占 (rev. 91776784), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Divination (卜) + mouth (口). To use the "mouth" to speak the meaning of the "cracks"—predicting what is to come or claiming a territory based on a sign.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhàn
Same form: 占 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 占 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 占 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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