万事如意
wàn shì rú yì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 萬事如意
A set good wish: may everything go the way you want. Said or written at New Year, on birthdays and at the end of cards and messages.
Lời chúc mọi việc đều được như mong muốn. Thường nói hoặc viết vào dịp năm mới, sinh nhật, ở cuối thiệp và tin nhắn chúc mừng.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “vạn sự như ý” = 萬事如意 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “vạn sự như ý” (van-su-nhu-y). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “万事如意” mean?
A set good wish: may everything go the way you want. Said or written at New Year, on birthdays and at the end of cards and messages. Literally: ten thousand things as wished
Is “万事如意” formal or informal?
万事如意 is generally neutral.