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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Chinese

		-
trad.		願
simp.		愿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuàn (yuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ngien
• Min Nan (POJ): gōan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yüan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuann
    • IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁶
    • Yale: yuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngien
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ɲi̯en⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gōan
    • Tâi-lô: guān
    • IPA (Taipei): /guan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /guan²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (願, reconstructed)
Character (願), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 元 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 魚怨切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋʉɐnH/	/ŋi̯wɐnH/	/ŋiuɐnH/	/ŋʷiɐnH/	/ŋuanH/	/ŋĭwɐnH/	/ŋiuɐnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (願, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
願								yuàn								‹ ngjwonH ›								/*[ŋ]o[n]-s (< nasal + uvular?)/								to wish
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
願					16196					原					元					1					願					/*ŋʷans/

Compounds

• 願意

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Japanese

Kanji

願

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ごん (gon)
• Kan’on: げん (gen)
• Kan’yōon: がん (gan)
• 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 (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

願 (nguyện, nguyền)

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