未～
み～ · mi～ · JLPT N2 · noun
not yet ~
🌱 Sounds like me: me, not yet. 未 + verb = not yet verbed (未来 = not yet come)
Mi sounds like me, so think me, not yet. Put 未 before a verb stem to mean not yet done, as in 未完成 (not yet finished) and 未定 (not yet decided).
未 — tree 木 with extra short top stroke
未 originally pictured a tree with luxuriant new branches at the top, suggesting tender shoots not yet matured. From this 'not yet ripe' image it came to mean 'not yet' or 'have not.' It is also the 8th Earthly Branch, used in the traditional sexagenary cycle.