"To wish" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yuàn yì to wish / to want / ready / willing (to do sth)
 xiǎng to think / to believe / to suppose / to wish / to want / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)
 zhù yuàn to wish
 xiǎng wàng to desire / to wish / (literary) to admire
 bā to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
 yuàn to hope / to wish / to desire / hoped-for / ready / willing
 zhù to wish / to express good wishes / to pray / (old) wizard
 sòng ode / eulogy / to praise in writing / to wish (in letters)
 qí wàng to hope / to wish / hope / wish / (old) name of an official post
 qī jì (literary) to hope for / to wish
 xī (literary) to wish / to hope / sad / sorrowful
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