Kanji
N2 7 strokes Grade 4 freq #896

hope, beg, request, pray, beseech

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

cloth haba

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

hope; wish
thin (air); weak (liquid)
scarce; rare
70th birthday
uncommon; rare
longing; strong desire
wishful
rare element
lean burn
rare sugar

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

ray of light; ray of hope
Kibō no Tō (Japanese political party); Party of Hope
ray of hope; glimmer of hope
I pray in earnest that; I beg that
to beg; to request

Example sentences

What did he tell you about his hope?

He sometimes loses hope.

Today the ozone layer is thinning.

The air is rarefied on high mountains.