占い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
占
うらな
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
卜

Etymology

Nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 占う (uranau, “to tell someone's fortune”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

占(うらな)い • (uranai) ←うらなひ (uranafi)?

  1. fortune-telling

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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