占
occupy; divine; fortune-telling; divining; forecasting; hold; have; get
5 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 694.
Readings
- セン (on reading): 占領 (せんりょう) occupying; 独占 (どくせん) monopoly
- しめる (kun reading): 占める (しめる) to account for; 買い占める (かいしめる) to buy up
- うらなう (kun reading): 占い (うらない) fortune-telling; 星占い (ほしうらない) astrology
- Read as a whole word: 太占 (ふとまに) scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer)
Components
Kanji containing 占
- 点 spot
- 店 store
- 粘 sticky
- 苫 rush matting
- 鮎 freshwater trout
- 帖 quire (of paper)
- 笘 whip
- 貼 stick
- 岾 mountain
- 拈 twirl
- 沾 moisten
- 砧 fulling block
- 站 stop
- 覘 peep
- 黏 stick to
- 點 point
Words using 占
- 占領 (せんりょう) occupying
- 独占 (どくせん) monopoly
- 占拠 (せんきょ) occupation
- 占領下 (せんりょうか) being under military occupation
- 占領地 (せんりょうち) occupied territory
- 占める (しめる) to account for
- 買い占める (かいしめる) to buy up
- 買い占め (かいしめ) buying up of goods
- 独り占め (ひとりじめ) hogging
- 占む (しむ) to occupy
- 占い (うらない) fortune-telling
- 星占い (ほしうらない) astrology
- 占う (うらなう) to tell someone's fortune
- 占い師 (うらないし) diviner
- 夢占い (ゆめうらない) oneiromancy
- 太占 (ふとまに) scapulimancy (divination using the cracks in the heated shoulder blade of a deer)
- 辻占 (つじうら) slip of paper with a fortune-telling message
- 占算 (うらさん) divination with rods
- 占書 (うらぶみ) diviner's book
- 占屋算 (うらやさん) divination (esp. one carried out with divination rods or sticks)
- 雪占 (ゆきうら) divining the year's crop yields from the shape of lingering snow
127 words in all.