🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

预感

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yùgǎn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Foreboding/fɔːrˈboʊdɪŋ/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他心里有一种不祥的预感。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen.

    "He had a deep sense of foreboding as he walked into the abandoned house."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from the verb forebode (from fore- 'before' + bode), on the pattern of old words meaning prediction.

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