Kanji1 / 19
願 kanji
petition, request, vow, wish, hope
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 19
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ガン
Kun readings
ねがう-ねがい
Words with 願
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —願力the power of prayer (in Buddhism)
- —誓願(religious) vow; prayer (for something by making a vow)
- —切願entreaty; supplication
- —代願praying by proxy; applying by proxy
- —勅願imperial prayer
- —結願expiration of term of a vow
- —宿願longstanding desire
- —訴願petition; appeal
- —大願ambition; the Buddha's great vow (to save all people)
- —心願prayer; heartfelt wish
- —所願wish; desire
- —満願fulfilment of a vow; fulfillment of a vow
- —熱願ardent desire
- —立願prayer to a god
- —発願giving rise to the desire to save all sentient beings; praying; prayer
- —併願applying to enter more than one school
- —特願patent application
- —願人petitioner; person who prays; beggar-priest
- —素願long-held desire; cherished hope; lifelong wish
- —単願single application; applying to enter only one school