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願

願

See also: 愿

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (原) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羱 *ŋʷaːn, *ŋʷan
豲 *ɦŋʷaːn
謜 *sŋ̥ʰʷan, *ŋʷan
縓 *sŋ̥ʰʷan, *sŋ̥ʰʷans
原 *ŋʷan
源 *ŋʷan
厵 *ŋʷan
嫄 *ŋʷan
騵 *ŋʷan
榞 *ŋʷan
獂 *ŋʷan
蒝 *ŋʷan
願 *ŋʷans
傆 *ŋʷans
愿 *ŋʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋʷans) : phonetic 原 ‎(OC *ŋʷan) + semantic 頁.

Han character

願 (radical 181 頁+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一火一月金 (MFMBC), four-corner 71286, composition ⿰原頁)

References

  • KangXi: page 1407, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43623
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1925, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4385, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9858

Chinese

trad. 願
simp. 愿

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 願
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 魚怨切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋuanH/
Li
Rong		 /ŋiuɐnH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 願
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjwonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]o[n]-s/ (< nasal + uvular?)
English to wish

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 願
Reading # 1/1
No. 16196
Phonetic
component		 原
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 願
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋʷans/

Verb

願

  1. to desire, to want, to wish

Noun

願

  1. ambition

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

願

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. request
  2. wish

Readings

Usage notes

The honorific form is the well known word for please, お願い (onegai).

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
願
がん
Grade: 4
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese 願 ‎(ngjwonH).

Pronunciation

Noun

願 ‎(hiragana がん, romaji gan, historical hiragana ぐわん)

  1. prayer

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

願 • ‎(won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

願 (nguyện, nguyền)

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