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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
- —節欲control one's desires; abstinence
- —物欲worldly desires; materialistic desires
- —欲心greed
- —愛欲passion; sexual desire; lust; attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex)
- —淫欲sexual desire; carnal desire; lust
- —欲深greedy; avaricious; covetous
- —胴欲avarice; heartlessness; greed
- —肉欲lust; lusts of the flesh; animal passions; carnal desires
- —欲念desire; wish; passion
- —欲情passion; passions; (sexual) desire; craving
- —獣欲animal desires; carnal desires; lust
- —欲目partiality; bias
- —欲気extreme greediness
- —欲得selfishness; self-interest
- —邪欲evil desire
- —少欲(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness
- —利欲greed; avarice
- —私欲self-interest; selfish desire
- —大欲avarice
- —欲界desire realm