虞
yú
#2,930 most
frequent character
(literary) to expect, to anticipate
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
虞 has 虍 tiger as a picture part and 吴 wú as its sound part. It first named a legendary striped animal, then an ancient state. The sense 'to predict' was borrowed for sound; worry and deceive grew later.
Drawn as: tiger
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