占う
うらなう · uranau · JLPT N2 · verb-godan
to predict
🔮 uranau sounds like Uranus now: astrologers read the planets to predict
The kanji 占 is 卜 (a crack in a heated oracle bone) over 口 (mouth): a diviner speaks out what the cracks foretell. Uranus links the sound to astrology, which is another way of divining.
占 — divination 卜 + mouth 口
Originally a pictograph showing a divination crack 卜 above a mouth 口, depicting someone speaking the result of an oracle reading. From this 'declare by divination' sense it broadened to 'occupy, take possession of' (now read zhàn) and 'divine, foretell' (read zhān).