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
- —金欲lust for money; hunger for money
- —嗜欲liking (for); appetite; weakness; fondness; indulgence
- —思欲hope; desire; want
- —多欲greed; avarice; covetousness
- —貪欲raga (desire)
- —欲動drive; urge; instinct
- —五欲desire arising from the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch); the five desires (for wealth, sex, food and drink, fame, and sleep)
- —独占欲possessiveness; desire to monopolize (monopolise); desire for control
- —知識欲thirst for knowledge; intellectual thirst
- —征服欲the lust for conquest
- —意欲的keen; eager; enthusiastic; motivated; determined; positive; ambitious
- —権力欲lust for power
- —貪欲法greedy algorithm
- —創作欲creative urge
- —六欲天the six domains of the desire realm; the six heavens of the desire realm
- —禁欲者ascetic
- —庇護欲desire to protect
- —無食欲anorexia
- —出世欲desire to succeed in life; ambition to make one's mark in the world
- —肉欲的sensual; erotic; carnal; lustful; lascivious; brutish