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欲

Traditional: 慾

yù

Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

yù

  1. desire
  2. appetite
  3. passion
  4. lust
  5. greed
  6. to wish for
  7. to desire
  8. variant of 慾|欲[yu4]

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

欲

Meaning
desire, want, long for; intend
Radical
欠
Strokes
11
Components
⿰谷欠
Cangjie
CRNO
Four-corner
8768.2

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