Illustration: Inside a small neighborhood fortune-telling booth, an older reader holds a young customer's open hand beneath a table lamp. The reader traces one palm line with a slender pointer, then raises an eyebrow and gestures confidently toward the customer's future.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

占うらなう

uranau

to tell someone’s fortune

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは運勢うんせいを占うらなってもらった。

    I had my fortune told.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしはいま、人気にんきの占うらない師しに占うらなってもらっている。

    I’m having my fortune told by a popular fortune-teller right now.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 特別とくべつなことをする時ときは骨ほねを焼やき、割われ目めを見みて吉凶きっきょうを占うらなう。

    When doing something special, they burn a bone and read its cracks to foretell good or bad fortune.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 占

  • 占fortune-telling; diviningOnセンKunしめる・うらなう

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