预感

yù gǎn · HSK 7

premonition

🔮 预 (in advance) + 感 (feeling) = an advance feeling, a premonition

预 means beforehand or in advance (as in 预报 forecast); 感 means feeling or sense (as in 感觉). Together they form a feeling you get ahead of time about what's coming.

感 — heart 心 + 咸 (xián, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 心 at the bottom carries the meaning of feeling or emotion, while 咸 supplies the sound. Together 感 conveys being moved in the heart, hence 'to feel,' 'sense,' or 'be affected by' something.

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