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HSK
aspiration / ambition / to volunteer
HSK 3
volunteer
HSK 3
voluntary
HSK 5
to wish / to want / ready / willing (to do sth)
HSK 2
desire / wish
HSK 3
aspiration / wish (for) / desire
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *願* | 願* | *願
(bound form) wish; hope; desire / to be willing / to wish (that sth may happen); may ... / vow; pledge
HSK 5
cherished desire / dream / craving / wish / aspiration
HSK 6
to wish
HSK 6
willingness / would rather (agree to X than Y)
HSK 7-9
one's own wishful thinking
would rather ... (than ...)
HSK 7-9
to have one's wish fulfilled
HSK 7-9
to both be willing / mutual consent
I'd like to hear the details
if only (sth were possible) / I wish (that)
HSK 7-9
to redeem a vow (to a deity) / to fulfill a promise / votive
things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom)
unwilling
willingly
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
to pray / to pray for sth / to wish sth / prayer / wish
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
wished-for / desired
to have one's wishes fulfilled
delighted to (do sth, idiom) / perfectly happy to do / most willing to do
unwilling
petition (for action to be taken)
wishing pond
both sides are willing / by mutual consent
willingly and gladly (idiom)
a long-cherished ambition is realized
volunteer soldier / CL:
to have one's wish fulfilled
both sides are willing / by mutual consent
if only it were so / I hope so (idiom)
to appeal / an appeal (law)
one's own wishful thinking
to express a wish (to a deity)
by mutual consent (north China dialect)
wish list
vision (of the future)
long-cherished wish
(idiom) to have one's wish fulfilled
to make a wish / to make a vow / to promise a reward
final wishes of the departed
HSK 7-9
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
to have a long-cherished wish realized
petition
to vow
great aspiration / great ambition
voluntary
long-cherished wish
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined / wishing for conjugal bliss
to offer official positions and material benefits in order to buy people's allegiance
volunteer army
a wish / a request (to a deity)
final vows (in a religious order or congregation of the Catholic Church)
so be it / amen
volunteer; consenting participant
wishing well
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
to feel gratified (esp. at the misfortune of a loathed person); to have one's wish fulfilled
desire to exist (in Buddhism, tanhā) / craving for rebirth
variant of 宏願|宏愿
variant of 稱願|称愿


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