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Chinese symbol for “premeditated”

预谋
yù móu
Traditional: 預謀
premeditated; to plan sth in advance (esp. a crime)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for premeditated is 预谋 (yù móu), defined as: premeditated; to plan sth in advance (esp. a crime).

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Characters and stroke order

预 yù
to prepare, to arrange; in advance
radical 181 ⾴ · 10 strokes
谋 móu
to plan, to scheme; strategem
radical 149 ⾔ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “premeditated”

WordPinyinMeaning
蓄意xù yìdeliberate; premeditated
有预谋 (有預謀)yǒu yù móupremeditated

Related words

Other words that share a character with 预谋.

WordPinyinMeaning
预算 (預算)yù suànbudget
预测 (預測)yù cèto forecast; to predict
预计 (預計)yù jìto forecast; to predict
预期 (預期)yù qīto expect; to anticipate
预防 (預防)yù fángto prevent; to take precautions against
干预 (干預)gān yùto meddle; to intervene
谋杀 (謀殺)móu shāto murder; to assassinate
阴谋 (陰謀)yīn móuto conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot

See also: Japanese symbol for “premeditated”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.