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希望

xī wàng 1–4

to hope; a hope; a wish

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
希 · 望
Syllables
2
xī wàng
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 182

Part of speech: v,n,vn

Character by character

  • 希xī7 strokesHSK 2rare; hope, expect, strive for
  • 望wàng11 strokesHSK 2to look at, look forward; to hope, expect

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 你没有希望。

    Nǐ méi yǒu xī wàng

    You are hopeless.

  • 我希望你去。

    Wǒ xī wàng nǐ qù

    I'd like for you to go.

  • 没有希望了。

    Méi yǒu xī wàng le

    There's no hope.

  • 我希望你能来。

    Wǒ xī wàng nǐ néng lái

    I hope you can come.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 希望. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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