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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
- —変態性欲abnormal sexuality; sexual perversion
- —無欲恬淡indifferent to worldly gain
- —欲求不満frustration
- —欲得ずくcarrying out mercenary deeds; having a mercenary attitude; calculating
- —禁欲主義asceticism; stoicism
- —異常性欲sexual abnormality
- —欲の奴隷slave to avarice
- —欲を張るto lust for
- —勤労意欲will to work
- —食欲不振lack of appetite; anorexia
- —私利私欲self-interest; selfish desire; greed
- —意欲満々full of zeal; highly motivated; very eager
- —禁欲生活an ascetic existence; (leading) a continent life; abstinence
- —強欲非道abnormally and inhumanly greedy; cruel and rapacious
- —私怨私欲personal grudges and selfish desires
- —創作意欲will (urge) to create; creative urge; appetite for writing
- —無欲無私unselfish and impartial (disinterested)
- —食欲減退decrease in appetite; loss of appetite
- —欲をかくto be greedy; to covet
- —欲張り法greedy algorithm