占

See also 佔

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictograph of glutinous, sticky rice, see also 粘.

Simplified form of Traditional 佔; also the simplified from of the 單 radical within 战.

Han character

占 (radical 25 卜+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜口 (YR), four-corner 2160₀, composition ⿱卜口)

1. divine
2. observe
3. versify

Derived characters

• 點 (点, 奌) 店 佔 坫 战 粘

References

• KangXi: page 157, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2780
• Dae Jaweon: page 361, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 92, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5360

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Cantonese

Hanzi

占 (Yale jim1)

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Japanese

Kanji

占 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: しめる (shimeru), うらなう (uranau), うらない (uranai)

Noun

占 (hiragana うら, romaji ura)

1. (archaic) fortune-telling

Alternative forms

• 卜

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Korean

Hanja

占 (hangeul 점, revised jeom, McCune-Reischauer chŏm)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

占 (pinyin zhān (zhan1), Wade-Giles chan¹)

Compounds

占卜 占据 占领 占领者 占满 占便宜 占上风 占为己有 占下风 占先 占线

占星 占星家 占星师 占星术 占星学 占用 占优 占优势 占有 占有率 占主导地位

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Vietnamese

Han character

占 (chiêm, chăm, chàm, chễm, chím, chiếm, giếm, chầm, chằm, chem, coi, xem)