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愿望

yuàn wàng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 願望

愿望 (yuàn wàng) means "wish; desire". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 愿望 means

1. desire
2. wish

The characters in 愿望

• 愿yuànhonest and prudent; variant of 愿
• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect

Example sentences

• 你有三个愿望。
  You have three wishes.
• 她有一千零一个愿望。
  She has 1001 wishes.
• 没有愿望是最大的障碍。
  Méiyǒu yuànwàng shì zuì dà de zhàng'ài.
  Having no will is the worst handicap.
• 我会尽力满足你的愿望。
  I'll try to meet your wishes.
• 希望我的愿望能够实现。
  I hope I can get my wish fulfilled.
• 我的愿望是成为一个老师。
  Wǒ de yuànwàng shì chéngwéi yī gè lǎoshī.
  My wish is to become a teacher.

Where 愿望 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Hope, Longing & Pursuit (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yuàn wàng correctly.
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