遗愿
yí yuàn · HSK 7
final wishes of the departed
🕯️ 遗 leave-behind + 愿 wish = the wish someone leaves behind: their final wishes
遗 means to bequeath or leave behind (as in 遗产, inheritance), and 愿 means a wish or desire (as in 愿望). Together: the wishes a departed person leaves behind. Sounds like yee-ywen.
愿 — 原 (source) + 心 (heart)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 心 carries the meaning of inner feeling or wish, while 原 (yuán, 'source/plain') supplies the sound. Together they depict a wish welling up from the heart, giving the senses 'to wish, to be willing'.