欲

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Usage notes 3.1.3 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] 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

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

欲 (Yale yuk6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

欲 (grade 6 kanji)

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] Usage notes

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

[edit] Compounds

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

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

欲
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 바랄 욕 (para-r yok)()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

欲 (pinyin āi (ai1), ēi (ei1), èi (ei4), yù (yu4), Wade-Giles ai¹, ¹, ⁴, yü⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 欲望

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

欲 (dục, giục)