variant of 占[zhan4]
to observe / to divine
to take possession of / to occupy / to take up

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a yellow umbrella. James II of England occupies the anthill's bathroom (an4). He uses a pennant (⺊) stuck into a mandarin (口) to mark his territory, and stands there proudly with a yellow umbrella (占).

占 character breakdown

surname Bu
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
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).
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : 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.

Characters with 占 as component

station / to stand / to halt / to stop / branch of a company or organization / website

= + : James II of England (zh) waits at the bus stop (站) inside of the anthill's bathroom (an4). He carries a very precious vase (立), which he protects with a yellow umbrella (占).
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

= + : Dorothy Gale opened a new shop inside anthill. She's selling grilled vegetables, and many people are ordering them. On a plate, they only look like little spots or points.
inn / shop / store / CL:家[jia1]

= + 广 : Dorothy Gale parachutes into anthill's bathroom. She immediately occupies it (marking the territory with a flag) to open her store.
inn; old-style hotel / (bound form) shop; store / CL:家[jia1]
to fight / fight / war / battle

= + : James II of England (zh) prepares to fight a war (战) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). He has a spear (戈) as a weapon and a yellow umbrella (占) as shield, following his hero Leonidas.
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

= + : 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.
variant of 鑽|钻[zuan4]

= + : Zapatista Zebra (zu) is dressing up in the anthill's bathroom (an4). He completes his luxurious outfit with a golden harpoon (钅) and a bejeweled (钻) yellow umbrella (占).
to drill / to bore / to get into / to make one's way into / to enter (a hole) / to thread one's way through / to study intensively / to dig into / to curry favor for personal gain

= + : Zapatista Zebra (zu) is studying intensively (钻) a yellow umbrella (占) in front of the anthill (an1) by drilling (钻) holes into it using a golden harpoon (钅).
an auger / diamond

= + : Zapatista Zebra (zu) is dressing up in the anthill's bathroom (an4). He completes his luxurious outfit with a golden harpoon (钅) and a bejeweled (钻) yellow umbrella (占).
to glue / to paste / to adhere / to stick to

= + : James II of England (zh) copied a lot of posters with yellow umbrellas (占) and is pasting (粘) them all over the exterior wall of the anthill (an1). As glue he uses a self made paste (粘) made from a bag of rice (米) and water.
variant of 黏[nian2]
rubbing from incised inscription
fitting snugly / appropriate / suitable / variant of 貼|贴[tie1] / to paste / to obey

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) is fitting her towel (巾) into her yellow umbrella (占) in front of the elevator (e1) and she finds that it fits snugly (帖).
invitation card / notice

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to invite everyone to her party in the elevator (e3), so she prepares invitation cards (帖) by weaving towels (巾) with depictions of yellow umbrellas (占) on them.

Words with 占

to occupy (a territory) / to hold
to occupy / to hold
to have / to own / to hold / to occupy / to possess / to account for (a high proportion etc)
to invade and occupy (territory)
advantageous / favorable / to benefit at others' expense / to take unfair advantage
to take the lead / to gain the upper hand
busy (telephone line)
to take precedence
to predominate / to occupy a dominant position
to divine; to prophesy; to foretell the future
to be at a disadvantage
Occupy Central, Hong Kong civil disobedience movement (September 2014 -)
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
Cham ethnic group
to appropriate to oneself (what rightfully belongs to others)
to divine / to prophecy / to foretell the future

Sentences with 占

占 currently does not appear in any sentence.