如愿以偿 (如願以償)
rú yuàn yǐ cháng
Pinyin
Definition
如愿以偿 (如願以償)
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- to have one's wish fulfilled
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 old variant of 以[yǐ]
- 1 before
- 2 formerly
- 3 previous
- 4 ago
- 1 after
- 2 later
- 3 afterwards
- 4 following
- 5 later on
- 6 in the future
- 1 to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)
- 1 can
- 2 may
- 3 possible
- 4 able to
- 5 not bad
- 6 pretty good
Idioms (20)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)
一如既往
- 1 just as in the past (idiom); as before
- 2 continuing as always
一日不见,如隔三秋
- 1 one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
一清如水
- 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一言以蔽之
- 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
- 2 in a nutshell