検索 Search kanji

Try

占

Also divining, forecasting, occupy, hold, have, get, take

Readings

On’yomi

  • セン

Kun’yomi

  • しめる
  • うらなう
On’yomi and kun’yomi?

On’yomi are readings that came from Chinese, written here in katakana. Kun’yomi are native Japanese readings, written in hiragana. Which one is used depends on the word: kanji in compounds often take an on’yomi, and a kanji standing alone often takes a kun’yomi.

What do the dots mean?

The kana after the dot, shown lighter, is okurigana: it is written in kana after the kanji. For example, the reading い·きる of 生 is written 生きる.

Stroke order

Strokes from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Example words

  • 占(うらな)いfortune-telling; divination
  • 占(うらな)うto tell someone's fortune; to divine (the future)
  • 占有(せんゆう)possession; occupation; occupancy
  • 占領(せんりょう)occupying; having (an area) all to oneself
  • 星占(ほしうらな)いastrology; horoscope
  • 占(し)めるto account for; to make up; to take up
Where do these words come from?

They are common words containing 占, from JMdict, picked automatically with words made of easier kanji first. They are not graded by JLPT level.

Keep exploring

Additional detailsSchool grade, frequency, Unicode and sources
School grade
Secondary school
Newspaper frequency
694 of 2,500
Classical radical
卜 no. 25
Unicode
U+5360

School grade comes from the Japanese school curriculum. Frequency is the rank among the 2,500 most common kanji in newspapers. Neither is a JLPT level.

Sources for this entry