Japanese word
要望
ようぼう
In your course · Chapter 45
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B2
- Frequency
- No. 857 in the course corpus
Meanings
- request; demand
Source: Tonada course
Kanji
- 要
- On reading:
- ヨウ
- Kun reading:
- い.る、かなめ
- Meanings:
- need, main point, essence, pivot, key to
- 望
- On reading:
- ボウ、モウ
- Kun reading:
- のぞ.む、もち
- Meanings:
- ambition, full moon, hope, desire, aspire to, expect
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))