希
KanjiJLPT N2
Hope
hope, beg, request, pray, beseech, Greece, dilute (acid), rare, few, phenomenal
Mnemonic
You reject bolt after bolt of fabric, searching for something impossibly rare. Each piece cast aside sharpens your longing. Then you spot it—a shimmering cloth unlike anything you've seen. Hope floods your chest. That precious fabric was worth every rejection.
Additional thoughts
Visualize a vast textile market: you toss aside ordinary fabrics one by one. The constant rejecting makes the rare discovery feel miraculous. Hope is born from seeking what's uncommon—the rarer the find, the deeper the longing.Quick recall
Reject ordinary fabric until the rare, precious one appears and hope surges through you.Details
The keyword for 希 is hope. This kanji conveys the sense of wishing for something rare or hard to obtain, carrying connotations of aspiration and desire for what is not yet realized. It also carries an underlying meaning of rarity or scarcity, suggesting that what one hopes for is something precious and uncommon. Over time, the dominant usage has settled on the idea of hope as an earnest longing directed toward the future.
- On'yomi
- き、け
- Kun'yomi
- まれ、こいねが.う