Character Details
| hope; rare; scarce | Ascii: — | w259 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 希 | xī | tsee | 1 | 乂 (cut) + 布 (cloth) → hope | 希 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Wolverine (sheaf) hopes they invent cloth sheets that he won't keep shredding in his sleep. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I hope so | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 40 - 己 | jǐ | snake | self | curved self‑stroke | 已 己 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 乂 (cut) + 布 (cloth) → hope | 巾 (semantic origin) | 乂 (phonetic) | phonetic from 乂 | ||||||||