Chinese Character Wiki
愿

yuàn

sincere

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 原 represents the sound. In simplified Chinese 愿 is also used to mean "hope; wish", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 願.

Components
原 sound component

原  Sound component

yuán

  

source

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

愿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
愿 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
愿 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

愿  

yuàn

sincere, honest, virtuous; honest; prudent; variant of 願|愿[yuàn]

愿 (願) 

yuàn

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

Most common words with 愿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

愿意

to wish

愿

to hope

愿望

desire

不愿

unwilling

宁愿

better

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 80.9707% of movies

409th most common character in movies

598th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

愿

Traditional

愿願

Unicode

U+613F

Shuowen

“愿，謹也。从心，原聲。”


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