What does 将 mean?


I know that this words means "Leader", but I need help thinking of a _keyword_
that helps me decipher words containing the Kanji 将.

Take this word for example 未成年. To me, individually, these Kanji means, "not
yet", "turn into" and "year". With these keywords, I can then pull the meaning
out from this Kanji by saying something like, "Well, if the YEAR has NOT YET
TURNED of you then you're probably stuck at a young age. Therefore your a
MINOR".

Here's another example using the Kanji 未来. Individually, the key words are,
"not yet" and "come". Again, my thinking will be along the lines of, "Hmm...
if something has NOT YET COME, it will take some time to get here. Therefore,
It will arrive sometime in the FUTURE".

Can you see how this makes sense? So here's where things don't make sense for
me.

As far as I know (and yes I'm pretty knew to Japanese), this 将 means LEADER.
But when I use that keyword to decipher this kanji 将来, it just doesn't make
sense. Individually these are, "leader" and "come". So I'm thinking, "Well...
it's erm... a LEADER that has to COME/arrive sometime in the FUTURE. Like a
FUTURE president maybe?

Somehow this just doesn't gel for me. Need help. So what keywords should I be
using for 将 that will help me decipher other words?




「将」, as a kanji (and not as a word in Japanese), can mean "will" and "shall".

So, if you look at 「将来」 as "will come" or "shall come", it actually is quite
logical that it means "future".

See:
[http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%B0%86](http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%B0%86)

(The kanji you see on that page is the Chinese version of「将」.)




「将」, as a kanji (and not as a word in Japanese), can mean "will" and "shall".

So, if you look at 「将来」 as "will come" or "shall come", it actually is quite
logical that it means "future".

See:
[http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%B0%86](http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%B0%86)

(The kanji you see on that page is the Chinese version of「将」.)

