欲
慾Meanings
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- 1.desire
- 2.appetite
- 3.passion
- 4.lust
- 5.greed
- 1.to wish for
- 2.to desire
- 3.variant of 欲[yù]
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Wiktionary
- 1.wish; desire
- 2.to wish; to desire; to want
- 3.about to
- 4.to want (to do)
- 5.to wish to have or keep
- 6.if (an adverb expressing assumptions)
- 7.Used to express the coexistence of several conditions or qualities; both ... and ...
- 8.but; on the other hand
- 9.almost; nearly
- 10.to like
- 11.to want (an object)
- 12.to want (to do); to wish
- 13.to need to; must
- 14.to be prone; to be easy to
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *loɡ): phonetic 谷 (OC *ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ) + semantic 欠. Sino-Tibetan. Compare Burmese လို (lui, “to want; to desire”) (Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ju(w) (“to ask; to request”), whence Tibetan ཞུ (zhu, “to request”) (ibid.).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
欲速則不達。
Haste makes waste.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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