漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
予: beforehand, previous
Also: myself, I
JLPT N34 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- マ(form)
- 了complete(form)
マ and 了 are drawn in
4 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ヨyo · on'yomi · in compounds
- 天気予報てんきよほうweather forecast
- 予算よさんbudget
- 予備よびspare
- 予習するよしゅうするprepare for a lesson
- 予定するよていするplan [v.t.]
- 予知するよちするknow by foresight
- 予期するよきするexpect
- 予約するよやくするreserve
- 予感するよかんするknow by premonition
- 予防するよぼうするprevent
Also read シャ, あらかじめ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Reach down and hook it! This radical acts as the anchor and the stabilizer of the kanji it joins.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
マ
Also built on マ
了
Also built on complete (了)
Also read ヨ
5 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 豫 · yù
予 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 豫 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 豫 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 豫 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yù most common reading
False friend. Chinese also has a character 予 (yǔ), but it is a different word. The Chinese for this kanji is 豫.
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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