予感
よかん · yokan · JLPT N1 · noun
foreboding
🔮 予 (advance) + 感 (feeling) = a feeling sensed in advance; sounds like 'yo-kahn', a 'yo-can' of foresight
予 means 'beforehand' and 感 means 'feeling', so 予感 is a feeling that arrives before the event. Use it for a sense that something is about to happen.
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.