予
to give
予
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㇖
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㇏
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㇖
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亅
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Mnemonic symbol: Confucius's disciple 宰予 who used to sleep during Confucuis's lectures.
Yu the Great is giving a lecture in the space station, but her only listener Zai Yu fell asleep right at the start. First, Yu the Great tried to poke him with her finger. No reaction. Then she hit him with a crowbar. Again, no reaction. Finally, Yu the Great got so angry that she was close to hitting Zai Yu with two sickles.
Yu the Great is giving a lecture in the space station, but her only listener Zai Yu fell asleep right at the start. First, Yu the Great tried to poke him with her finger. No reaction. Then she hit him with a crowbar. Again, no reaction. Finally, Yu the Great got so angry that she was close to hitting Zai Yu with two sickles.
予 character breakdown
"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4 gou1]
Mnemonic symbol: 亅 looks like a crowbar. Zeus (ju) is bored and presses all the buttons next to the elevator kitchen's (e2) door with his crowbar (亅).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
A sickle.
Characters with 予 as component
to advance / in advance / beforehand / to prepare
预
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予
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页
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Yu the Great and Zai Yu are preparing their tax reports in advance in the space station's bathroom. Yu the Great is scribbling wildly on one sheet of paper after the other, and sheets of paper are flying all over the place. Zai Yu on the other hand just fell asleep and covered himself in a lot of sheets of paper. He covered himself with a sheet he made out of paper.
happy / carefree / at one's ease / variant of 預|预[yu4] / old variant of 與|与[yu4]
field / plain / open space / limit / boundary / rude / feral
to express / to give expression to / variant of 紓|纾[shu1] / to relieve
抒
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予
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扌
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Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is in a dire situation in front of the space station (Ø1): he desperately needs to find a villains address in a huge database. Zai Yu (予) comes to his rescue: he prepares to get ready to hack the computer using two toy claws (扌) and excaims: "everybody stand back! I know regular expressions (抒)!"
Words with 予
Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
Sentences with 予
予 currently does not appear in any sentence.