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願

yuàn

desire

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 原 represents the sound.

Components
原 sound component

原  Sound component

yuán

  

source

頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

Depicts a head, which is where wishes originate from.

Evolution

願 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
願 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
願 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

愿 (願) 

yuàn

desire, want; wish; ambition; to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing

Most common words with 願
Freq.
Word
Meaning

愿意

to wish

愿

to hope

愿望

desire

不愿

unwilling

宁愿

better

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]o[n]-s (< nasal + uvular?)

ngjwonH

yuàn

to wish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 80.9707% of movies

409th most common character in movies

598th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

愿𫖸

Unicode

U+9858

Shuowen

“願，大頭也。从頁，原聲。”


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