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希望

xī wàng

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word

希望 (xī wàng) means "to hope; hope". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 希望 means

1. to hope
2. a hope; a wish

The characters in 希望

• 希xīto hope; to admire; variant of 稀
• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect

Example sentences

• 我希望如此。
  I hope so.
• 你没有希望。
  You are hopeless.
• 我希望你去。
  I'd like for you to go.
• 没有希望了。
  There's no hope.
• 我希望得满分。
  Wǒ xīwàng de mǎnfēn.
  I intend to get full marks.
• 希望你会喜欢。
  I hope that you will like it.

Words starting with 希望

• 希望落空xī wàng luò kōnghopes are dashed

Words containing 希望

• 有希望yǒu xī wànghopeful; promising; prospective
• 大有希望dà yǒu xī wàngto stand a good chance; to have great hopes; to be promising
• 一线希望yī xiàn xī wànga gleam of hope

Where 希望 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Emotions and States (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xī wàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.