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Mouth Fortune Telling 占 セン し.める、うらな.う うら しむ じめ

Kanji
Onyomi セン
Kunyomi し.める、うらな.う
Nanori うら, しむ, じめ
English fortune telling, divine, forecast, occupy, hold, have, get, take
Examples 占領(せんりょう): occupation; capture; possession; have a room to oneself
独占(どくせん): (1) monopoly (2) to monopolize; to hog
占う(うらなう): to tell someone's fortune; to forecast; to predict; to divine
占める(しめる): (1) to comprise (some part of the whole); to account for; to make up (of) (2) to hold; to occupy
占めた(しめた): I've got it; all right; fine
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 694
Components 卜: divination
口: mouth
Number of Strokes 5
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 25
Radical Strokes 2
Radical Reading ぼく・ぼくづくり・ぼくのと・と・うらない
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword fortune-telling
Koohii Story 1 Fortune-telling: using a mouth as a divining rod.
Koohii Story 2 A great number of people who do fortune-telling are "almost old".
RTK Index (new) 49

Tags: jlpt.n2, grades, kanjifreq501-750

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