未来

• 読み: みらい
• ローマ字: mirai
• 漢字の分解: 未 (mi/ima) — not yet; 来 (rai/ku) — come
• 発音: /mi.ɾa.i/

意味

Future; the time yet to come. Often implies the distant or grand-scale future.

A noun referring to the future, especially in an aspirational or visionary sense. Common in both everyday and formal contexts: 未来の夢 (mirai no yume, future dreams), 未来予測 (mirai yosoku, future prediction). In Buddhism, 未来 is one of the three temporal realms (past, present, future). Contrasts with the more immediate 将来 (shourai, personal/near future).

例文

1. 子供たちの未来のために環境を守りたい。
2. 未来の技術がどうなるか楽しみだ。
3. あの映画は未来の世界を描いている。

使い方ガイド

場面: aspirations, science, philosophy

トーン: hopeful

起源と歴史

Compound of 未 (mi, not yet) and 来 (rai, come). Literally 'not yet come', describing what has not yet arrived — the future.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal