# 約 — Promise

Frequency rank 257 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 天 (Heaven), less common than 空 (Sky).

- On’yomi: やく
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 糸 Silk (Kangxi 120)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 9

The boiled cocoon pays its one fine thread out over the lip of the pool, and two men knot a wrist each into it and lower both arms under.

In words:

- 約 やく — approximately,about,some
- 約束 やくそく — promise
- 予約 よやく — reservation

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