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HSK
to hope / a hope; a wish (CL:個|个)
HSK 3
to despair / to give up all hope / desperate / desperation
HSK 5
to have expectations / to earnestly hope / expectation / hope
HSK 5
to thirst for / to long for
HSK 5
disappointed / to lose hope / to despair
HSK 4
desire / wish
HSK 3
to pay a visit to; to see (sb)
HSK 4
to hope for; to look forward to
HSK 6
to look in all directions (idiom) / to glance around
HSK 7-9
without hope / hopeless / without prospects
reputation; prestige; public esteem
HSK 7-9
see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙
hopeful / promising
HSK 7-9
desire; longing; appetite; craving
HSK 7-9
not living up to expectations (idiom) / failing to inspire confidence among people / unpopular
an extravagant hope / to have excessive expectations
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *望* | 望* | *望
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards
HSK 7-9
to watch from a height or distance / to keep a lookout
outlook / prospect / to look ahead / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
to stand a good chance; to have great hopes; to be promising
to count on; to hope for / prospect; hope
HSK 7-9
people's expectations
a gleam of hope
to place hopes on
to wait and see; to watch from the sidelines / to look around; to survey
HSK 7-9
to live up to expectations (idiom)
to keep watch
to visit / to call on sb / to look around
HSK 7-9
great hopes / great expectations
renown / prestige
to place high hopes
can be expected (to) / to be expected (to) / hopefully (happening)
to desire / to wish / (literary) to admire
to look into the distance
to gaze at / to stare fixedly at
to return sb's gaze; to meet sb's eyes / to look back (to one's rear) / (fig.) to look back at (the past); to reflect on
greatly disappointed
hopeful / promising / prospective
to look up at / to look up to sb hopefully
as far as the eye can see
to survey the scene from an elevated position
(literary) spotless reputation
to look at each other
to gaze afar / to look into the distance
within view; visible / (fig.) in the offing; around the corner; soon to materialize
choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈 is also known as 韓昌黎|韩昌黎, where 韓|韩 is his surname and 昌黎 is his clan's ancestral prefecture .)
hope / to hope / to look forward to
victory is in sight
to look around / to peep (through a crack) / to peer at / to throw a look at
to look forward to
to peep / to spy on
to overlook / to watch from above
to look at one another / to face each other
to enjoy the confidence of the people / to be very popular
Battambang
the new moon / the first day of the lunar month
seniority and prestige
prestige
overjoyed at unexpected good news (idiom)
to look far ahead / to look forward (to)
renowned / prestigious / great hopes / expectations
to eagerly anticipate
to call to pay one's respect / to call on
a full view
to hope / to wish / hope / wish / (old) name of an official post
to aspire
prestige; esteem
see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙
to expect (often in negative combination, I never expected...) / to look forward to
to raise one's head and look into the distance / fig. to forward to / to long for
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *望* | 望* | *望
15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of
HSK 7-9
to look forward to
family prestige
to stand on tiptoe looking forward to sb or sth
John / Saint John / less common variant of 約翰|约翰 preferred by the Catholic Church
variant of 企望


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