欲

See also 慾

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 谷 + semantic 欠 (“blow”)

Han character

欲 (radical 76 欠+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金口弓人 (CRNO), four-corner 8768₂)

1. desire, want, long for
2. intend

Derived characters

• 慾

References

• KangXi: page 567, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16080
• Dae Jaweon: page 956, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2140, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6B32

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Cantonese

Hanzi

欲 (Yale yuk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

欲 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: よく (yoku)
• Kun: 　1. ほしい (hoshi-i)
  • 　　　2. ほっする (hos-suru), from ほりす (hor-i-su)
  • 　　　3. [archaic] ほる (hor-u)
  • Manyō-gana: よ (yo) [back-vowel variant(甲類)]

Usage notes

This character was sometimes used to phonetically transcribe the Old Japanese word for “night” (yo). [cf. Manyōshū : 4134]

Compounds

• 愛欲
• 強欲
• 色欲
• 食欲
• 性欲
• 大欲
• 物欲
• 無欲
• 名誉欲

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Korean

Hanja

欲
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 욕 (revised: yok, McCune-Reischauer: yok, Yale: yok)

• Name (hangeul): 바랄 욕 (para-r yok)()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

欲 (pinyin yù (yu4), Wade-Giles yü⁴)

Compounds

• 欲望

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Min Nan

Verb

欲 (traditional and simplified, POJ beh, boeh)

1. want, desire

• (Literary) 欲 (traditional and simplified, POJ io̍k)

Compounds

• 欲暗仔 (beh-àm-á, boeh-àm-á)
• 欲呢 (beh-nî, boeh-nî)
• 欲知 (beh-tsai, boeh-tsai)
• 強欲 (kiōng-beh/kiōng-boeh)
• 拄欲 (tú beh, tú boeh)
• 咧欲 (teh-beh, teh-boeh)
• 嘛欲 (mā beh, mā boeh)

See also

• (Mandarin) 要

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Vietnamese

Han character

欲 (dục, giục)