欲 (yù)
desire; wish; to want; appetite
How 欲 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 谷 — valley
- Traditional
- 欲
- Simplified
- 欲 (unchanged)
Components
- 谷 valley
- 欠 yawn
Common words using 欲
- 慾望 yùwàng
- desire; longing; appetite
- 食慾 shíyù
- appetite
- 性慾 xìngyù
- sexual desire; lust
- 情慾 qíngyù
- lust; desire; sensual
- 昏昏欲睡 hūnhūnyùshuì
- drowsy; sleepy (idiom)
- 暢所欲言 chàngsuǒyùyán
- lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic; to hold forth to one's heart's content
- 望眼欲穿 wàngyǎnyùchuān
- to anxiously await
- 欲罷不能 yùbàbùnéng
- want to stop but can't (idiom, from Analects); find it impossible to give up
- 欲蓋彌彰 yùgàimízhāng
- trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
- 為所欲為 wéisuǒyùwéi
- do whatever one pleases
- 物欲 wùyù
- material desire; craving for material things
- 痛不欲生 tòngbùyùshēng
- to be so in pain as to not want to live; to be so grieved as to wish one were dead
欲 in a sentence
我最近感冒，沒什麼食欲。
Wǒ zuìjìn gǎnmào, méi shénme shíyù.
“I have a cold recently and don't have much appetite.”
How common is 欲?
欲 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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