Mnemonic comic for 占
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: a yellow umbrella. James II of England (zh) occupies (占) the anthill's bathroom (an4). He uses a pennant (⺊) stuck into a mandarin (口) to mark his territory. The ants are silently protesting with yellow umbrellas (占).
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All translations for 占
variant of 占[zhan4]
to observe / to divine
to take possession of / to occupy / to take up
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占 character breakdown
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
⺊
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丨
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一
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Mnemonic symbol: ⺊ looks a bit like a pennant.
Someone stuck a flute into the middle of a hollow dinosaur bone to conduct studies on the speed of sound. At the one end of the hollow dinosaur bone is an answering pennant, used in the International Signal Code primarily for the reply "signal is received and understood", which should be raised as soon as the person is hearing the sound made by the flute.
Someone stuck a flute into the middle of a hollow dinosaur bone to conduct studies on the speed of sound. At the one end of the hollow dinosaur bone is an answering pennant, used in the International Signal Code primarily for the reply "signal is received and understood", which should be raised as soon as the person is hearing the sound made by the flute.
Characters with 占 as component
inn; old-style hotel / (bound form) shop; store / CL:家[jia1]
inn / shop / store / CL:家[jia1]
to glue / to paste / to adhere / to stick to
variant of 黏[nian2]
station / to stand / to halt / to stop / branch of a company or organization / website
to stick / to paste / to post (e.g. on a blog) / to keep close to / to fit snugly / to subsidize / allowance (e.g. money for food or housing) / sticker / classifier for sticking plaster: strip
贴
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占
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贝
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Mother Teresa (ti) wants to start a revolution and so she is pasting (贴) posters everywhere around the elevator. In front of it (e1) she is posting a poster with a crab (贝) holding a yellow umbrella (占), subversively telling the local crab population that they should rise up against their oppression.
fitting snugly / appropriate / suitable / variant of 貼|贴[tie1] / to paste / to obey
invitation card / notice
rubbing from incised inscription
to fight / fight / war / battle
point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更[geng1] / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items
to moisten / to be infected by / to receive benefit or advantage through a contact / to touch
Words with 占
to have / to own / to hold / to occupy / to possess / to account for (a high proportion etc)
advantageous / favorable / to benefit at others' expense / to take unfair advantage
to take up (one's time etc) / to occupy (one's attention etc) / to account for (a proportion of sth)
Champa (Sanskrit: Campapura or Campanagara), ancient kingdom in the South of Vietnam c. 200-1693
Champa (Sanskrit: Campapura or Campanagara), ancient kingdom in the South of Vietnam c. 200-1693
Sentences with 占
占 currently does not appear in any sentence.