慾 (yù)
desire/lust/appetite
How 慾 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 谷 — valley
- Traditional
- 慾
- Simplified
- 欲
Components
- 谷 valley
- 欠 yawn
- 心 heart
Common words using 慾
- 慾望 yùwàng
- desire; longing; appetite
- 性慾 xìngyù
- sexual desire; lust
- 貪慾 tānyù
- greed; avarice; rapacious
- 食慾 shíyù
- appetite
- 利慾 lìyù
- cupidity
- 口腹之慾 kǒufùzhīyù
- desire for good food
- 嗜慾 shìyù
- lust
- 情慾 qíngyù
- lust; desire; sensual
- 慾壑難填 yùhènántián
- bottomless pit of desire (idiom); insatiable greed; carnal cravings are never satisfied and are a main obstruction on the path to enlightenment
- 慾火 yùhuǒ
- lust
- 求知慾 qiúzhīyù
- desire for knowledge
- 淫慾 yínyù
- lust
慾 in a sentence
人的慾望是無止盡的。
Rén de yùwàng shì wúzhǐjìn de.
“Human desire is endless.”
How common is 慾?
慾 is the 1,043rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.8% of all running text.
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