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Kanji Detail for 占 - "to divine, to occupy"

占

  • Meaning

    占 means "to divine, to occupy."

    1. To divine - To judge the fortune or misfortune of matters.

    2. To occupy - To make things, places, or positions one's own.

  • Words using 占

    • 占領 せんりょう Listen occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation
    • 独占 どくせん Listen monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity
    • 買い占め かいしめ Listen buying up of goods; cornering (market)
    • 買い占める かいしめる Listen to buy up
    • 占拠 せんきょ Listen occupation; taking and maintaining exclusive control (of a location)
    • 寡占 かせん Listen oligopoly; control of a market
    • 独り占め ひとりじめ Listen hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising
    • 占める しめる Listen to account for; to make up; to take up

  • Tattoo check: 占

    • Verified meaning: to divine, to occupy
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fortune-telling; divining; forecasting; occupy; hold; have; get; take

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    divine; observe; versify

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 占[zhan4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to divine; to observe; to versify

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Examining omens to know fortune. All divination to resolve doubts is called 占. | To monopolize. Taking as one's own is called 占. | Composing words mentally and dictating to others is called 口占. See (Book of Later Han). Poetry composed without drafting is also called 口占.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sen(セン) セン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    shi.meru(し-める) し-める

    urana.u(うらな-う) うらな-う

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    卜 (boku・bokunoto・to・uranai)

  • Related Keywords

    to occupy to divine fortune-telling to monopolize claim seize possess foretell predict prophesy dominate

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