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
- —惚れた欲目tendency to see one's loved one as better than they really are; seeing someone through rose-colored glasses because of love
- —欲も得もないhaving thought for neither gain nor greed; only wanting to do something (thinking about nothing else)
- —欲の皮が張るto be greedy
- —食欲をそそるto stimulate one's appetite; to whet one's appetite
- —欲に目がくらむto be blinded by greed
- —神経性無食欲症anorexia nervosa
- —欲の熊鷹股裂くavarice brings doom upon oneself; grasp all, lose all; the greedy hawk-eagle splits in half (when trying to catch two boars at once)
- —欲の皮が突っ張るto be greedy
- —親の欲目と他人の僻目parents overvaluing their own children but looking down on others'
- —小欲(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness
- —耆欲liking (for); appetite; weakness; fondness; indulgence
- —欲ばりgreed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person
- —欲ばるto be greedy; to be avaricious; to want badly; to desire intensely; to covet
- —欲得尽carrying out mercenary deeds; having a mercenary attitude; calculating
- —欲の塊incarnation of selfishness; lump of avarice
- —欲得尽くcarrying out mercenary deeds; having a mercenary attitude; calculating
- —欲得づくcarrying out mercenary deeds; having a mercenary attitude; calculating
- —意欲満満full of zeal; highly motivated; very eager
- —欲を掻くto be greedy; to covet
- —欲に目が眩むto be blinded by greed