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Chinese
Japanese
Etymology 1
Alternative spelling
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未來 (kyūjitai)
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From Middle Chinese 未來 (MC mj+jH loj). Originally a Buddhist calque of Sanskrit अनागत (anāgata, “not yet come; future”, past participle), from अन्- (an-, “not”) + आगत (āgata, “what has come”), from the verb root आगम् (āgam, “to come”).
Pronunciation
Noun
未来 • (mirai)
- the future
- Synonyms: 将来 (shōrai), フューチャー (fyūchā)
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- あっ まってっ‼ぼくの未来をかえせっ‼
- Ah matteh‼ Boku no mirai o kaeseh‼
- Come back here‼ Give me back my future‼
1988 July 30 [1983 December 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “未来ドロボウ (未来ドロボウ)”, in ひとりぼっちの宇宙戦争 [The One-Man Cosmic War] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 1), 16th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 120:あの子の未来がどうなるか…………それはわからないが………、ただひとついえることは、これからの毎日を……、一日一日たいせつに、生きていってくれるだろうということ- Ano ko no mirai ga dō naru ka………… Sore wa wakaranai ga………, tada hitotsu ieru koto wa, kore kara no mainichi o……, ichinichi ichinichi taisetsu ni, ikiteitte kureru darō to iu koto
- What does the future have in store for him?…………That is yet to be determined………, one thing for certain though, from now on……, he will treasure every single day of his life
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- 君が死ぬ未来が見えても…僕は…何も出来なかった… …未来は…変えられない…
- Kimi ga shinu mirai ga miete mo… boku wa… nani mo dekinakatta… …Mirai wa… kaerarenai…
- Even though I could see the future in which you died… I… could do nothing… …The future… cannot be changed…
- (Buddhism) the future, one of the three existences
- Synonyms: 後生 (goshō), 後世 (gose), 未来世 (mirai-se), 来世 (raise)
- Hypernym: 三世 (sanze)
- (grammar) the future tense
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Proper noun
未来 • (Mirai)
- a female given name
Etymology 2
Alternative spelling
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未來 (kyūjitai)
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Compound of 未 (mi, the on'yomi or Chinese-derived reading) + 来 (ku, the kun'yomi or native Japanese reading).
Proper noun
未来 • (Miku)
- a female given name
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN