预 yù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 页 — page, sheet, leaf
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
预料
yùliào
to predict; prediction
Characters in this word
料 liào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 斗 — to struggle, to fight, to contend
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我们早已预料到原材料价格会继续上涨，所以提前签了长期合同。 Wǒmen zǎo yǐ yùliào dào yuáncáiliào jiàgé huì jìxù shàngzhǎng, suǒyǐ tíqián qiān le chángqī hétong. We had long predicted that raw material prices would continue to rise, so we signed a long-term contract in advance.
- 结果比我们预料的好得多。 Jiéguǒ bǐ wǒmen yùliào de hǎo de duō. The result was much better than we expected.
- 谁也没有预料到，今天会下这么大的雪。 Shéi yě méiyǒu yùliào dào, jīntiān huì xià zhème dà de xuě. Nobody expected that it would snow this heavily today.
Related words
- 预报 yùbào forecast
- 预防 yùfáng to prevent
- 预计 yùjì to expect; to estimate
- 预习 yùxí to prepare before class
- 预测 yùcè to predict
- 预订 yùdìng to reserve
- 干预 gānyù to interfere
- 预备 yùbèi to prepare
- 预期 yùqī expected; expectation
- 预定 yùdìng to book, to reserve
- 预感 yùgǎn to have a premonition; premonition
- 预告 yùgào to announce in advance; trailer