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願望

願望

See also: 愿望

Chinese

 
hope; wish; desire; ready; willing
 
hope; expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); look towards; towards
trad. (願望) 願 望
simp. (愿望) 愿 望

Noun

願望

  1. wish; desire; aspiration

Japanese

Kanji in this term
願 望
がん
Grade: 4 		ぼう
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

願望 ‎(hiragana がんぼう, romaji ganbō)

  1. wish, hope
    • 1939, 三木清, 思索者の日記:
      つまり自然 (しぜん)の死 (し)、極 (きわ)めて日常的 (にちじょうてき)に死 (し)ぬることが日本人 (にほんじん)の願望 (がんぼう)なのである。
      Tsumari shizen no shi, kiwamete nichijōteki ni shinuru koto ga nihon-jin no ganbō na no de aru.
      In short, Japanese people's hope is to have a natural and completely ordinary death.

Verb

願望する ‎(transitive, hiragana がんぼうする, romaji ganbō suru)

  1. to wish, to desire
    • 1935, 太宰治, 逆行:
      誇張 (こちょう)でなしに、相手 (あいて)を殺 (ころ)したいと願望 (がんぼう)したからである。
      Kochō de nashi ni, aite o koroshitai to ganbō shita kara de aru.
      To say that he wished he could kill his opponent would be no exaggeration.

Conjugation

Korean

Hanja in this term
願 望

Noun

願望 • ‎(wonmang) ‎(hangeul 원망)

  1. Hanja form? of 원망, “wish, desire”.

Pronunciation

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