欲
want; longing; covetousness; greed; passion; desire; craving
11 strokes. Taught in grade 6. Newspaper frequency rank 902.
Readings
- ほしい (kun reading): 欲しい (ほしい) wanting (to have); 物欲しげ (ものほしげ) greedy
- ヨク (on reading): 食欲 (しょくよく) appetite (for food); 欲 (よく) greed
- ほっする (kun reading): 欲する (ほっする) to want; 己達せんと欲して人を達せしむ (おのれたっせんとほっしてひとをたっせしむ) if you wish to succeed yourself, first help others to succeed
Components
- 谷
- 欠
- ハ radical eight, katakana ha
- 𠆢 radical person roof
- 口 radical mouth
- 欠 radical lack; yawn
- 谷 radical valley
Kanji containing 欲
- 慾 covetousness
Words using 欲
- 欲しい (ほしい) wanting (to have)
- 物欲しげ (ものほしげ) greedy
- 欲しがる (ほしがる) to appear to want to have (something)
- 欲しいだけ (ほしいだけ) as much as one wants
- 物欲しそう (ものほしそう) wistful
- 食欲 (しょくよく) appetite (for food)
- 欲 (よく) greed
- 性欲 (せいよく) sexual desire
- 欲望 (よくぼう) desire
- 意欲 (いよく) will
- 欲する (ほっする) to want
- 己達せんと欲して人を達せしむ (おのれたっせんとほっしてひとをたっせしむ) if you wish to succeed yourself, first help others to succeed
- 己の欲せざる所は人に施す勿れ (おのれのほっせざるところはひとにほどこすなかれ) do not do unto others what you would not have done unto you
- 将を射んと欲すれば先ず馬を射よ (しょうをいんとほっすればまずうまをいよ) do not shoot straight for the top
- んと欲す (んとほっす) to endeavor to
- 欲す (ほりす) to want
123 words in all.