預 [预] yù
adverb
: to prepare
: to advance; in advance; beforehand
Kun Reading
預け | あずけ azuke
noun
: custody; keeping
預り | あずかり azukari
noun
: under custody; under supervision
: undecided match; draw; tie
預かる | あずかる azukaru
godan verb with ru ending | transitive verb
: to look after; to take care of; to keep; to hold on to; to keep in custody
: to take charge of; to be entrusted with; to receive on deposit
: to reserve (judgment); to leave undecided
預ける | あずける azukeru
ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to give into custody; to leave (a child) in the care of; to entrust; to deposit
: to lean on; to put one’s weight on
On Reading
ヨ yo
…like your graphic design?
Created by designer Colin Harman, this diagram illustrates the four limitations graphic designers are usually saddled with: work that is fast, cheap, great and free. All tall orders in it by itself. Now throw in a monkey wrench, whereby you can only pick two of these to work with.
And don’t they ALL love FREE?! I wonder if they thought of giving away THEIR products or services for free? Yet, Harman is quite courteous and polite. He simply tells them to “go away.”
子 zi
noun suffix
子 zǐ
noun | radical 39
: son; offspring; child; seed; egg
: small thing
: 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
: Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
Kun Reading
子 | こ ko
noun | noun suffix
: child
: young (animal)
: young woman; young geisha
: offshoot
: interest
: (Abbreviation) new shares
: (Archaism) bird egg; (Noun suffix) (after a noun or -masu stem) -er (often of young women)
子 | ね ne
noun | noun suffix
: first sign of Chinese zodiac (The Rat, 11pm-1am, north, November)
子 OR 実 | み mi
noun
: fruit; nut
: seed
: (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.
: content; substance
On Reading
子 | し shi
noun
: child (esp. a boy)
: viscount
: (Honorific or respectful language) master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius)
: philosophy (branch of Chinese literature); non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings
: (Archaism) you (of one’s equals); (Noun suffix) -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing…)
子 OR 主 | す su
suffix
: honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
號 [号] hào
verb | measure word
: ordinal number; day of a month
: mark; sign
: business establishment
: size
: ship suffix
: horn (wind instrument)
: bugle call
: assumed name
: to take a pulse
: classifier used to indicate number of people
號 [号] háo
: roar; cry; to cry out
号する | ごうする kousuru
suru verb – special class
: to name; to take a second name or alias
: to announce; to boast; to declare
号 OR 號 | ごう kou
noun | noun suffix
: number; edition; make; model; issue; part of that group
: sobriquet; pen-name