(xī) - to hope (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
xīTraditional: 希
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Translation
to hope (bound morpheme)
Word origin
Originally depicting a loosely woven cloth, 希 carried the sense of sparse or rare, from which the modern meaning to hope (to wish for something rare) developed.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- early graph of loosely woven cloth, giving sparse, then to hope
Stroke order
希
Examples
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I hope you can come.
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He hopes the weather is good tomorrow.
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There is no hope left.
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I hope the weather is good tomorrow.
希 (xī) means to hope and almost always appears bound, most commonly in 希望 (xīwàng), meaning hope.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 希.
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