UTINAM  但願

DESIRE what one KNOWS is PAST OR CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.DESIRE what one KNOWS is CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.
Hypernym
  • DESIREGOOD FEELING IN-RELATION-TO ONESELF concerning the FUTURE HAVING, CONTROLLING, or ACTING:doing SOMETHING DEFINED.
    • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
      • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
Old Chinese Criteria
It will be important to study the history of counterfactual desires in China. The relevant word is 願 "wish that" for which counterfactual usages need to be carefully analysed and collected.

Modern Chinese Criteria
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING

  • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 1162

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.193

Words

但願  dàn MC: danX ngjwonH OC: daanʔ --CH 17 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPt[0]oSI wish that S could come true (although it us beyond human powers)CH
  • VPt[0]oVI wish that I could V (but of course that is unrealistic/impossible)CH
唯願  wéi yuàn MC: ywij ngjwonH OC: k-lul ŋɡonsCH 6 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPt[0]oSIf only S!CH
願  yuàn OC: ŋɡons MC: ŋi̯ɐn 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt+V[0]counterfactualI wish that
  • vtoNcounterfactualwish (unrealistically) forCH
尚  shàng OC: djaŋs MC: dʑi̯ɐŋ 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • padSwould that
使  shǐ MC: sriX OC: srɯʔCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • v SMay it be the case that; Would that SCH
其  qí MC: gi OC: ɡɯCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • npro.adVmay the subject V!CH
唯  wéi MC: ywij OC: k-lulCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • padSWould that S! I wish that S could happen; I wish that the action in S could be performed.CH
惟  wéi MC: ywij OC: k-lulCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vt[0]oSIf only S!, my sincely hope is that S.CH
但使  dàn shǐ OC: daanʔ srɯʔ MC: dɑn ʂɨ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPt+SWish that S! Would that!

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: