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未然 (みぜん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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Measures to prevent accidents before they happen are necessary.
We dealt with it in advance before the problem grew.
Expressions 未み 然ぜん に 防ふせ ぐ prevent in advance; nip in the bud; take precautions against Kanji 然 sort of thing, so, if so Related words 事前 is the common, neutral word for 'beforehand' or 'in advance', while 未然 specifically implies stopping something bad from happening and appears mainly in set phrases like 未然に防ぐ.
予防 is 'prevention', especially of illness or accidents through active measures, whereas 未然 is a more abstract, formal way of saying 'before it occurs' and is usually paired with 防ぐ or 食い止める.
Etymology From 未 (not yet) and 然 (so, like that), literally 'not yet so'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the compound has been used in formal Japanese to mean 'before it happens'.
