音読み: ヨ
訓読み: あずける・あずかる
画数: 13
部首: おおがい（頁）
Meaning
Entrust / Deposit / Leave (In Care)
Conjugation
Tap for 預ける (entrust)
Tap for 預かる (take care of; keep)
- 預金 — bank deposit
- 預言 — prophecy; prediction
- 預託 — entrustment
- 預ける — to leave (in someone's care)
- 預かる — to take care of; to look after
預 combines an “ear” element with the head radical 頁 and a phonetic ヨ. The sense is “to receive and hold under one’s charge,” which developed into “entrust,” “deposit,” and “leave in care.”