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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

万事如意

wànshìrúyì

to have all one's wishes (idiom)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to have all one's wishes (idiom)

02

best wishes

03

all the best

04

may all your hopes be fulfilled

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 万事如意 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 万事如意 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我希望万事如意。wǒ xī wàng wàn shì rú yì。

I hope everything goes well.

万事如意。wàn shì rú yì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 万事如意.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 万事如意.

Directly before

  • 希望万事如意1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 万事如意

What does 万事如意 mean in Chinese?

万事如意 (wànshìrúyì) means to have all one's wishes (idiom).

How do you pronounce 万事如意?

万事如意 is pronounced wànshìrúyì.

Is 万事如意 an HSK word?

万事如意 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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