许愿池 (xǔyuànchí): wishing well

许愿 (xǔyuàn) = make a wish; 池 (chí) = pool. Most often refers to the Trevi Fountain (特雷维喷泉, Tèléiwéi pēnquán) in Rome — the practice of throwing coins for a wish became globally recognized through it.

In Pop Culture

特雷维喷泉 Tèléiwéi pēnquán

Trevi Fountain

The Roman fountain most associated with the coin-throwing wishing tradition; the prototypical 许愿池 in Chinese popular imagination.

Stroke Order

许 xǔ

愿 yuàn

池 chí

Related Words

许愿 xǔyuàn #9,251

to make a wish / to make a vow (to a deity)

青草池塘处处蛙 qīngcǎochítángchùchùwā

green grass, pond after pond — frogs calling everywhere / (fig.) the lush, humid sound-scape of early summer in Jiangnan / (lit.) green-grass pond-pool place-place frog

虾池 xiāchí

shrimp pond / shrimp farming pond

但愿人长久 dànyuànrénchángjiǔ

may we all live long and well — a wish for the lasting well-being of loved ones, especially those far away / literally: only wish that people be long-lasting

池沼物 chízhǎowù

(fig.) a person of no great ambition; one content to stay in a small pond / a creature of the pond — someone stuck in obscurity

池 chí #6,803

pond; pool / reservoir; moat

许可 xǔkě HSK 5 #3,673

to permit; to allow / permission; permit

许 xǔ HSK 7 #2,249

to allow; to permit / to promise; to praise / perhaps; maybe

许多 xǔduō HSK 2 #1,399

many / a lot of / much

巴山夜雨涨秋池 bāshānyèyǔzhǎngqiūchí

night rain on Ba Mountain swells the autumn pond / Li Shangyin's line of separation — writing back north from rainy Sichuan, the rain comes to stand for homesickness itself