# 仮 provisional

(personleft) + 反 (anti)
★★★☆☆
6 strokes

## Onyomi

KA |

## Mnemonic

| CARRie is against people, so she can only be a provisional friend of ours.

## Kunyomi

かり ( に ) | suppose, as in "Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you were a doctor". ★★☆☆☆

## Jukugo

仮面(かめん) | mask ★★★☆☆ 仮 (provisional) + 面 (front surface / face) = 仮面 (mask) mask. (literally, "temporary face")
仮名(カナ) | kana ★☆☆☆☆ 仮 (provisional) + 名 (name, famous) = 仮名 (kana) all the Japanese letterforms which are not Kanji - hiragana, katakana, okurigana, furigana, oshirigana, nurenuregana, bakana, and whatever they think up next!

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
板 | plank | WOOD | 木
仮 | provisional | PERSON | 人
坂 | slope | EARTH | 土

The board is made of WOOD
The PERSON is provisionally good (before xmas).

The EARTH has slopes called hills.

## Synonyms

speaking hypothetically 例える 想像 仮に