願

See also 愿

Translingual

Han character

願 (radical 181 頁+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一火一月金 (MFMBC), four-corner 7128₆, composition ⿰原頁)

1. desire, want
2. wish
3. ambition

References

• KangXi: page 1407, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43623
• Dae Jaweon: page 1925, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4385, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9858

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Cantonese

Hanzi

願 (simplified 愿, Yale yun6)

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Japanese

Kanji

願 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: がん (gan), げん (gen)
• Kun: ねがう (negau), ねがい (negai)

Usage notes

The honorific form is the well known word for please, お願い (onegai).

Compounds

願意 (がんい, gan'i) 願書 (がんしょ, gansho) 願望 (がんぼう, ganbō) 願文 (がんもん, ganmon)

祈願 (きがん, kigan) 満願 (まんがん, mangan) 志願 (しがん, shigan)

出願 (しゅつがん, shutsugan) 念願 (ねんがん, nengan) 本願 (ほんがん, hongan)

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Korean

Hanja

願 (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

願 (simplified 愿, pinyin yuàn (yuan4), Wade-Giles yüan⁴)

Compounds

• 願意

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Vietnamese

Han character

願 (nguyện, nguyền)