Jisho

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2 strokes
Radical:
divination
Parts:
divining, fortune-telling, divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 卜 【ボク】 divining, telling a fortune, predicting, choosing, settling, fixing
  • 卜者 【ボクシャ】 fortune teller, soothsayer, diviner
  • 売卜 【バイボク】 fortunetelling (as an occupation)
  • 亀卜 【キボク】 tortoise-shell divination

Kun reading compounds

  • 占う 【うらなう】 to tell someone's fortune, to divine (the future), to predict, to forecast
  • 占い 【うらない】 fortune-telling, divination, fortune-teller, diviner

Readings

Japanese names:
うら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bu3, bo5
Korean:
bog

Spanish

  • adivinación
  • vaticinio
  • adivinar
  • vaticinar

Portuguese

French

797 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
10 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
4174 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2856 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2774 Morohashi
3367 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
622 New Nelson (John Haig)
2103 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2m0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-2-4 SKIP code
2300.0 Four corner code
1-43-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
535c Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
divination
Parts:
fortune-telling, divining, forecasting, occupy, hold, have, get, take
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
694 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 占領 【センリョウ】 occupying, having (an area) all to oneself, military occupation, possession, capture, seizure
  • 占拠 【センキョ】 occupation, taking and maintaining exclusive control (of a location)
  • 寡占 【カセン】 oligopoly, control of a market
  • 買い手寡占 【カイテカセン】 oligopsony

Kun reading compounds

  • 占める 【しめる】 to occupy, to hold, to account for, to make up, to take up
  • 占う 【うらなう】 to tell someone's fortune, to divine (the future), to predict, to forecast

Readings

Japanese names:
うら、 しむ、 じめ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhan1, zhan4
Korean:
jeom

Spanish

  • adivinar
  • pronosticar
  • ocupar
  • poseer
  • tomar

Portuguese

  • Ler a sorte
  • advinhar
  • previsão
  • ocupar-se
  • segurar
  • manter
  • obter
  • tomar

French

  • bonne aventure
  • divination
  • prédiction
  • occuper
  • tenir
  • posséder
  • avoir
  • prendre
1491 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
851 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
799 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
985 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
383 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
153 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1706 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1822 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1016 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
250 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2496 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1263 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1729 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
48 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2780 Morohashi
2003 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
624 New Nelson (John Haig)
48 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
49 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
378 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
1042 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1277 2001 Kanji
2m3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-3 SKIP code
2160.0 Four corner code
1-32-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5360 Unicode hex code