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divination; foretell
to tell a fortune with cracked bones |
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occupy
divination 卜 [bǔ] + mouth 口16[kǒu]
thanks to a fortunetelling one is told occupy a territory |
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shop
house/broad 广143[guǎng] + occupy 占 [zhàn]
To occupy an auspicious site(占), construct a building(广) and open a ‘shop.’ |
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stand
a person standing upright on the ground |
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stand; stop; station
stand 立79 [lì] + occupy 占 [zhàn]
the local government putting up(立) stations on a site they occupied(占) so officials could rest their horses; this is how ‘bus stops or stations’ were started |
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127d) 点 / 一点
dian / yidian |
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dot
occupy 占 [zhàn] + fire 灬=火158[huǒ]
fire 灬 [huǒ]” makes ash, and combined it with occupy 占 [zhàn] to borrow the pronunciation. A dot is small, so this character means ‘a little.’ |
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