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占

Fortune
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingセン
Kun readingし.める、うらな.う
JōyōGrade 8Level 26

Verbs with «占»

占める占領する占う独占する
  1. fortune-telling
  2. divination
  3. fortune-teller
  4. diviner

Popular Usage

占める占う

Radicals and components

Radical卜divination
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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magic wand · augury · divining rod · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 49

Compound words

占めるしめる
to occupy; to hold; to account for; to make up; to take up
占ううらなう
to tell someone's fortune; to divine (the future); to predict; to forecast
占城稲せんじょうとう
Champa rice
人相占いにんそううらない
physiognomy
寡占かせん
oligopoly; control of a market
占いうらない
fortune-telling; divination; fortune-teller; diviner
占拠せんきょ
occupation; taking and maintaining exclusive control (of a location)
占有せんゆう
possession; occupation; occupancy
占領せんりょう
occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture
独占どくせん
monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity; hogging; keeping to oneself
星占いほしうらない
astrology; horoscope
占い師うらないし
diviner; fortune teller; soothsayer
買い占めかいしめ
buying up of goods; cornering (market)
独り占めひとりじめ
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
買い占めるかいしめる
to buy up
占むしむ
to occupy
占卜せんぼく
divination
占筮せんぜい
divination (using bamboo divination sticks)
辻占つじうら
slip of paper with a fortune-telling message
卜占ぼくせん
fortune-telling
占めたしめた
I've got it!
占領下せんりょうか
being under military occupation
国家独占こっかどくせん
state monopoly
水脈占いすいみゃくうらない
dowsing

Additional Examples

彼は長く製鉄業を支配したが、完全な独占には至らなかった。
Though he long dominated the steel industry, he never achieved a complete monopoly.tatoeba
彼は雑誌を開くと、たいていまず自分の星占いを読みます。
When he opens a magazine, he will usually read his horoscope first.tatoeba
時代劇の大多数を占める。
The majority of jidaigeki are swordfighting dramas.wiki
安曇川の上・中流域を占める。
The middle and upper Ado-gawa River ran through the village.wiki
待ち人を占う方法
The method to divine a person whom a client awaitswiki
盗失物を占う方法
The method to divine lost or missing articleswiki

Stroke Order

5 strokes

Divine; occupy. 卜 (a crack in bone) + 口 (mouth) — reading the sign aloud. 占い — fortune-telling.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 占

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step