variant of 占[zhan4]

variant of 獨占|独占[du2 zhan4]

to seize control of (an enemy position); (fig.) to take by storm; to gain (awards, control of a market etc)

to invade and occupy (territory)

to occupy by force; to seize; to dominate

to seize (the strategic high ground)

to divine; to prophesy; to foretell the future

to occupy by force

to muscle in; to take possession; to occupy; to squat

to misappropriate

(dialect) merchant (loanword)

taking or eating more than one's due (idiom); greedy and selfish

the magpie made a nest, the turtledove dwells in it (idiom); to reap where one has not sown