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Mythic Mandarin

希望 (xī wàng): meaning and stroke order

希望 (xī wàng) means to hope, a hope; a wish (个).

希望

Simplified
希望
Traditional
希望 (same form)
Pinyin
xī wàng

Stroke order of 希望

希

  • xī to hope; to admire
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

望

  • wàng full moon; to hope
  • wàng 15th day of month (lunar calendar); old variant of 望[wang4]
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 朢

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 希望

  1. xī wàng
    • to hope
    • a hope; a wish (CL:個|个[ge4])

Radicals of the characters

希
Radical 巾 (Kangxi radical 50) · 7 strokes · 㐅 on top, 布 below
望
Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 11 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

希望 in our stories

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  • 郭子涵的父母都是医生，从她小时候起，他们就希望她将来也当医生。

    Guō Zǐhán de fùmǔ dōu shì yīshēng cóng tā xiǎo shíhou qǐ tāmen jiù xīwàng tā jiānglái yě dāng yīshēng

    Guo Zihan's parents were both doctors, and ever since she was little they had hoped she would be one too.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

  • 第二天，她给总部写了一封长长的邮件：她愿意接受这个职位，但希望每个月有一个星期在西安远程工作。

    dì-èr tiān tā gěi zǒngbù xiě le yì fēng chángcháng de yóujiàn tā yuànyì jiēshòu zhè gè zhíwèi dàn xīwàng měi gè yuè yǒu yí gè xīngqī zài Xī'ān yuǎnchéng gōngzuò

    The next day she wrote head office a long email: she would accept the post, but asked to work remotely from Xi'an one week each month.

    From the story No perfect answer HSK 6

Where you learn it

希望 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 2 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 希望

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).