Meaning & readings
deposit, custody, leave with, entrust to
Origin
This character combines a sound hint with a meaning classifier. The right side, 頁, represents the head or a person, acting as a classifier to signal this kanji concerns human matters. The left side, 予, serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation "yo." The idea of depositing or entrusting something — leaving it in someone else's care — naturally connects to people and personal responsibility, which is why the person-related classifier was chosen. Over time, the character came to mean entrusting money or goods to another person's custody.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 予
- 頁
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
- 預金 よきん deposit; bank account
- 預託 よたく depositing (of money, valuables, etc.); deposition
- 預かり あずかり safekeeping; temporary custody
- 預かる あずかる to look after; to take care of
- 預ける あずける to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care)
- 預貯金 よちょきん deposits and savings; bank account
- 普通預金 ふつうよきん ordinary deposit
- 預かり所 あずかりじょ cloakroom; parcel room
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 181
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #981 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+09810