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希

Wish
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingキ
Kun readingまれ

Verbs with «希»

希望する

Meanings

  1. wish
  2. hopeRtK
  3. beg
  4. request
  5. pray
  6. beseech
  7. greece
  8. dilute (acid)
  9. rare
  1. seldom

Popular Usage

希望

Radicals and components

Radical巾cloth
Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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sheaf · linen · by one’s side · towel

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1602

Compound words

彼は弁護士になれるという希望に執着していた。
He clung to the hope that he could be a lawyer.tatoeba
彼は非常に悲観的で希望を持っていない。
He is extremely pessimistic and has no aspirations.tatoeba
彼は彼女と結婚できるという希望を捨て切れなかった。
He was unable to completely give up on his hopes of marrying her.tatoeba
彼は多くの希望と不安を抱いて結婚にふみきった。
He embarked on his marriage with many hopes and fears.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

希望がいっぱいです。
きぼうがいっぱいです。I'm full of hope.
希望を持つから絶望する
きぼうをもつからぜつぼうするWe despair because we have hope.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Hope; rare. 乂 (pattern) + 布 (cloth) — fine patterned cloth: a rare thing people long for.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 希

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