望 Hope

Radical Combination

• 亡

  Death
• 月

  Moon
• 王

  King

Meaning

Primary

Hope

Mnemonic

Causing death at every turn, the moon king sits inside his moon, getting ready to cause death on anything in his sights. Sounds a lot like the Death Star from a certain movie. One of which is "Star Wars: A New Hope."

Hints

Now picture the death moon king as the Emperor, sitting in his Death Star. There is no hope, except for that little opening you can shoot through to destroy the whole thing. That's hope, I guess!

Readings

On’yomi

ぼう

Kun’yomi

のぞ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The name A New Hope, as we all know, comes from the ending where the moon king's son sends a bowling (ぼう) ball into that little opening and knocks it out of the sky.

Hints

In the end, the real hope was bowling all along. I hope you've learned a valuable lesson from this space movie.