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未来

みらい

future

Mnemonic

A tree with the top branch not out yet, and the crop that has not come in. Me み, and the same らい as 以来 pointed the other way. Nothing here has happened, which is the entire point: みらい.

Worth knowing

未 means not yet, and turns up in 未定 みてい, undecided. 将来 しょうらい is your own future rather than the world's.

Built from

not yet
A tree with the top branch not grown out. Not yet, rather than never.
come
Originally a wheat plant. The crop that comes to you at harvest.

Words sharing these kanji

to come to be able to do, to be good at next year next month to come around, to come along originally, essentially to bring over, to bring along occurrence, incident since one's future, in the future

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