慾

See also: 欲

Translingual

Han character

慾 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 金人心 (COP), four-corner 8733₈, composition ⿱欲心)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 401, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11163
• Dae Jaweon: page 741, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2343, character 11
• Unihan data for U+617E

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Chinese

trad.		慾
simp.		欲*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (谷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
螸	*lo
裕	*loɡs
容	*loŋ
溶	*loŋ, *loŋʔ
鎔	*loŋ
蓉	*loŋ
傛	*loŋ, *loŋʔ
褣	*loŋ
搈	*loŋ
瑢	*loŋ
嵱	*loŋ
熔	*loŋ
榕	*loŋ
塎	*loŋʔ
谷	*ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ
唂	*kloːɡ
焀	*ɡloːɡ
俗	*ljoɡ
欲	*loɡ
浴	*loɡ
鵒	*loɡ
峪	*ɦkloːɡ
鋊	*loɡ
輍	*loɡ
慾	*loɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *loɡ) : phonetic 欲 (OC *loɡ) + semantic 心 – to lust with one’s heart.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 慾 – see 欲 (“lust”). (This character is a variant form of 欲).

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Japanese

Kanji

慾

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): よく (yoku)
• Kun: このみ (konomi), むさぼる (musaboru)

Compounds

• 愛慾
• 強慾
• 色慾
• 食慾
• 性慾
• 大慾
• 物慾
• 無慾
• 情慾
• 名誉慾

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Korean

Hanja

慾 • (yok) (hangeul 욕, revised yok, McCune–Reischauer yok, Yale yok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 慾 (dục)

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