予約
よやく
hepburn yoyaku
reservation, to reserve
Part of speech · noun / suru-verb
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- レストランの予約をしました。I made a restaurant reservation.
- 予約なしでは入れません。You cannot enter without a reservation.
Collocations
予約 (yoyaku, reservation)予約する (yoyaku suru, to reserve)キャンセル (kyanseru, cancel)満席 (manseki, fully booked)予定 (yotei, plan / schedule)
Mnemonic
Yoyaku (予約) is the Sino-Japanese "reservation," noun or suru-verb. 予 (in advance) + 約 (promise / agreement) = "promise made in advance." Reservations underpin Japanese society — restaurants, salons, clinics, trains, hotels, services almost all use yoyaku systems. Yoyaku-sei (reservation-based, social-structure term). Compare: yakusoku (promise between people), yotei (schedule / plan), yosoku (forecast). Kyanseru (cancel, loanword) and noo-shou (no-show) are the negative side — no-show costs are a social issue in the Japanese restaurant industry. The 予 root anchors a cluster: yosou (expectation), yokan (presentiment), yoshuu (preparatory study).
Quick check
Difference between yoyaku and yakusoku?