漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
願: petition, request
Also: vow, wish, hope
JLPT N319 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
頁 carries the meaning · 原 gives the sound
19 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ガンgan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 願望がんぼうwish [n.]
- 願書がんしょapplication letter
- 悲願ひがんone's dearest wish
- 念願ねんがんone's heart's desire
- 祈願するきがんするpray
ねがうnegau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 願うねがうwish
- お願いおねがいrequest [n.]
Also read -ねがい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ガン
10 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side願 petition · 原
vs頻 repeatedly · 歩In ChineseSimplified 愿 · traditional, as in Japanese · yuàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 願; mainland China simplifies it to 愿.
- Simplified
- 愿 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 願 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yuàn 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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