願

See also: 愿
願 U+9858, 願
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9858
← 顗
[U+9857] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 顙 →
[U+9859]

Translingual

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*

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 願
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (原) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羱 *ŋʷaːn, *ŋʷan
豲 *ɦŋʷaːn
謜 *sŋ̊ʰʷan, *ŋʷan
縓 *sŋ̊ʰʷan, *sŋ̊ʰʷans
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.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • nguêng6 - Chaozhou;
  • nguang6 - Shantou.
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/

Definitions

願

  1. to desire; to want: to wish
  2. ambition

Compounds
Derived terms from 願

Japanese

Kanji
願

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. request, wish
  2. prayer

Readings

Usage notes

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

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology
Kanji in this term
願
がん
Grade: 4
kan’yōon

/ɡʉan/ → /ɡʷaɴ/ → /ɡaɴ/

From Middle Chinese 願 (MC ŋʉɐnH).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. a prayer

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 願 (がん)に懸 (か)けて (gan ni kakete)
  • 願 (がん)を起 (お)こす (gan o okosu)
  • 願 (がん)を懸 (か)ける (gan o kakeru)
  • 願 (がん)を立 (た)てる (gan o tateru)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. desire, want
  2. wish
  3. ambition

Vietnamese

Han character

願 (nguyện, nguyền)

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