Kanji1 / 11
欲 kanji
longing, covetousness, greed, passion, desire, craving
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ヨク
Kun readings
ほっするほしい
Words with 欲
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3食欲Popularappetite (for food)
- N2欲張りPopulargreed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person
- N1欲望Populardesire; appetite; lust
- N1意欲Popularwill; desire; eagerness; interest; drive; motivation; urge; ambition
- N1欲深いgreedy
- —欲Populargreed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice; wants
- —性欲Popularsexual desire; sex drive; lust
- —無欲Popularunselfish; disinterested; unavaricious; free of avarice
- —欲求Populardesire; want; will; wish; urge; craving
- —貪欲Populargreedy; avaricious; covetous
- —欲張るPopularto be greedy; to be avaricious; to want badly; to desire intensely; to covet
- —禁欲的Popularabstemious; austere
- —寡欲unselfishness; wanting little
- —我欲selfishness
- —強欲greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable
- —禁欲abstinence; self-denial; celibacy; asceticism; abnegation
- —情欲passions; sexual desire; lust
- —色欲lust; sexual appetite; carnal desire
- —人欲human desires; human passions
- —制欲control of passions; control of appetite