Desire in Chinese
desire · HSK 5
愿望
- 愿 to wish
- 望 to look
Counted with 个: 一个愿望
我的愿望是去海边旅行。 My wish is to take a trip to the seaside.
Other ways to say desire
More words with 愿 or 望
How do you say desire in Chinese?
Desire in Chinese is 愿望 (yuàn wàng). You can also say 欲望 (yù wàng), 愿 (yuàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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