Provide

On’yomi: び
Kun’yomi: そな
Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)

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

More common than 具 (Tool), less common than 肉 (Meat).

A leader on the left, with flowers, cliff, and task stacked on the right — the leader provides flowers from the cliff to complete the task, ensuring everyone is well supplied.

In words

備えるそなえる to furnish,to provide for,to equip,to installN3

備わるそなわる to be furnished with;to be endowed with;to possess;to be among;to be one of;to be possessed ofN1

準備じゅんび・する to prepareN4

備 is rank 458 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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