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HSK
to wish / to want / ready / willing (to do sth)
HSK 2
aspiration / ambition / to volunteer
HSK 3
volunteer
HSK 3
desire / wish
HSK 3
voluntary
HSK 5
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  *愿* | 愿* | *愿
(bound form) wish; hope; desire / to be willing / to wish (that sth may happen); may ... / vow; pledge
HSK 5
aspiration / wish (for) / desire
HSK 6
cherished desire / dream / craving / wish / aspiration
HSK 6
to wish
HSK 6
would rather ... (than ...)
HSK 7-9
final wishes of the departed
HSK 7-9
if only (sth were possible) / I wish (that)
HSK 7-9
to have one's wish fulfilled
HSK 7-9
willingness / would rather (agree to X than Y)
HSK 7-9
long-cherished wish
to pray / to pray for sth / to wish sth / prayer / wish
one's own wishful thinking
things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom)
to make a wish / to make a vow / to promise a reward
vision (of the future)
delighted to (do sth, idiom) / perfectly happy to do / most willing to do
to redeem a vow (to a deity) / to fulfill a promise / votive
willingly
to have one's wishes fulfilled
great aspiration / great ambition
petition (for action to be taken)
to vow
willingly and gladly (idiom)
long-cherished wish
to have one's wish fulfilled
both sides are willing / by mutual consent
to offer official positions and material benefits in order to buy people's allegiance
both sides are willing / by mutual consent
to appeal / an appeal (law)
one's own wishful thinking
volunteer army
unwilling
(idiom) to have one's wish fulfilled
petition
variant of 稱願|称愿
to both be willing / mutual consent
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want it, take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
to have a long-cherished wish realized
volunteer soldier / CL:
wishing well
wished-for / desired
if only it were so / I hope so (idiom)
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined / wishing for conjugal bliss
volunteer
wish list
desire to exist (in Buddhism, tanhā) / craving for rebirth
to feel gratified (esp. at the misfortune of a loathed person); to have one's wish fulfilled
wishing pond
so be it / amen
unwilling
by mutual consent (north China dialect)
a long-cherished ambition is realized
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
variant of 宏願|宏愿
final vows (in a religious order or congregation of the Catholic Church)
voluntary
to express a wish (to a deity)
a wish / a request (to a deity)
I'd like to hear the details
lit. if you agree to bet you must accept to lose / fig. you bet, you pay


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