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HSK
to wish / to want / ready / willing (to do sth)
HSK 2
volunteer
HSK 3
desire / wish
HSK 3
voluntary
HSK 5
cherished desire / dream / craving / wish / aspiration
HSK 6
aspiration / wish (for) / desire
HSK 6
aspiration / ambition / to volunteer
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *愿* | 愿* | *愿
(bound form) wish; hope; desire / to be willing / to wish (that sth may happen); may ... / vow; pledge
HSK 5
one's own wishful thinking
unwilling
to wish
HSK 6
to appeal / an appeal (law)
if only (sth were possible) / I wish (that)
HSK 7-9
willingness / would rather (agree to X than Y)
HSK 7-9
unwilling
vision (of the future)
final wishes of the departed
HSK 7-9
to both be willing / mutual consent
if only it were so / I hope so (idiom)
volunteer army
voluntary
Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want it, take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
lit. if you agree to bet you must accept to lose / fig. you bet, you pay
both sides are willing / by mutual consent
would rather ... (than ...)
HSK 7-9
things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom)
to have one's wish fulfilled
HSK 7-9
both sides are willing / by mutual consent
willingly
wish list
delighted to (do sth, idiom) / perfectly happy to do / most willing to do
to redeem a vow (to a deity) / to fulfill a promise / votive
(idiom) to have one's wish fulfilled
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
to have a long-cherished wish realized
long-cherished wish
by mutual consent (north China dialect)
petition (for action to be taken)
petition
so be it / amen
wished-for / desired
one's own wishful thinking
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined / wishing for conjugal bliss
volunteer soldier / CL:
a long-cherished ambition is realized
a wish / a request (to a deity)
desire to exist (in Buddhism, tanhā) / craving for rebirth
long-cherished wish
to feel gratified (esp. at the misfortune of a loathed person); to have one's wish fulfilled
wishing pond
willingly and gladly (idiom)
to have one's wishes fulfilled
to express a wish (to a deity)
volunteer; consenting participant
I'd like to hear the details
to vow
to offer official positions and material benefits in order to buy people's allegiance
to pray / to pray for sth / to wish sth / prayer / wish
to make a wish / to make a vow / to promise a reward
to have one's wish fulfilled
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
wishing well
Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
great aspiration / great ambition
final vows (in a religious order or congregation of the Catholic Church)
variant of 稱願|称愿
variant of 宏願|宏愿


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