漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
希: hope, beg
Also: request, pray, beseech, Greece, dilute (acid), rare, few, phenomenal
JLPT N27 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- 乂(form)
- 布linen(form)
乂 and 布 are drawn in
7 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 希望するきぼうするhope [v.t.]
- 希求するききゅうするaspire to, seek
- 希望者きぼうしゃcandidate, a hopeful
- 希望きぼう
- 希薄きはくthin (air); weak (liquid); dilute
- 希少きしょうscarce; rare
Also read ケ, まれ, こいねがう, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Fresh from the loom! This radical represents the soft, woven materials we use every day—from a simple "towel" to a grand "banner" carried into battle.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
乂
Also built on 乂
布
Also built on linen (布)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side希 hope · 乂
vs怖 dreadful · 忄In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xī
Same form: 希 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 希 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 希 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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