Chinese symbol for “prospective”
有希望
yǒu xī wàng
hopeful; promising; prospective
The closest CC-CEDICT match for prospective is 有希望 (yǒu xī wàng), defined as: hopeful; promising; prospective.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 有希望.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 没有 (沒有) | méi yǒu | haven't; hasn't |
| 所有 | suǒ yǒu | all; to have; to possess; to own |
| 还有 (還有) | hái yǒu | there still remain(s); there is (or are) still; in addition |
| 只有 | zhǐ yǒu | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才 (cái)) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 (zhǐ yǒu tōng gu |
| 有人 | yǒu rén | someone; people |
| 有关 (有關) | yǒu guān | to have sth to do with; to relate to |
| 希望 | xī wàng | to hope; a hope; a wish |
| 古希腊 (古希臘) | gǔ Xī là | ancient Greece |
| 失望 | shī wàng | disappointed; to lose hope |
See also: Japanese symbol for “prospective”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.