但愿
dàn​yuàn HSK7

if only

但愿 但願 dàn​yuàn
if only adverbverb
to only wish; to hope that (often used to express a strong desire or prayer for a future outcome)

但愿我能帮忙。

dàn​yuàn wǒ néng bāng máng.

I wish I could help.

但愿在新的一年里一切会更好。

dàn​yuàn zài xīn de yī nián li yī​qiè huì gèng​hǎo.

I hope everything will be better in the new year.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
26.3 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
9.97 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)