Meaning & readings
spot, point, mark, speck, decimal point
Origin
This character combines two parts to represent a small, localized thing. The bottom component, which looks like four dots, is a fire radical that classifies things related to light or small burning marks. The top component serves as a sound hint, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character. Together, the idea is that a point or spot is like a tiny mark of light or heat — something small and concentrated in one place. Over time, the meaning expanded from this concrete image to include any kind of mark, speck, or decimal point.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 占
- 灬
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 86
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #165 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+070B9