Does the use of 予 such as in 猶予 to mean "in advance" have any precedent in Chinese?


There are a lot of Japanese words that use the morpheme よ, written 予, to mean
"in advance". This clearly looks like a loan from Chinese, but I do not know
of any examples of Chinese words or texts that use 予 in such a way.

Are there any examples of the usage of 予 to mean "in advance" in Chinese? If
there are, it must have been a rather rare usage. What would explain the large
number of Japanese words that use it in this way?




予 in Japanese is also a simplified version of 豫. 猶予 corresponds to Mandarin
犹豫.

<http://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BA%88>

