占 — fortune-telling, divining, forecasting

うらなう占 fortune-telling

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+5360 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #694 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #49 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

fortune-telling
divining
forecasting
occupy
hold
have
get
take

word

うらな urana Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

占(うらな) う uranau to tell fortunes 占(うらな) い uranai fortune-telling

せん sen On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

独(どく) 占(せん) dokusen monopoly 占(せん) 領(りょう) senryou occupation 占(せん) 有(ゆう) senyuu occupation 占(せん) 拠(きょ) senkyo occupation

し shi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

占(し) める shimeru to occupy

うらない uranai Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

占(うらない) uranai fortune-telling

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

卜 divination

くち口 mouth #30

Used as component in (4)

てん点 point みせ店 store ねばる粘 sticky はる貼 stick

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#25 卜 divination