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欲yù仙xiān欲yù死sǐ
  1. to experience sheer ecstasy (or, when used ironically, sheer hell)

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Characters in this word

3
欲
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

desire, appetite, passion, lust, greed

Pinyin
yù
Traditional
慾
Strokes
11
Frequency
10619 of 2500
Words starting with 欲Words ending in 欲Anywhere in a word
仙
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

immortal

Pinyin
xiān
Strokes
5
Frequency
18696 of 2500
Words starting with 仙Words ending in 仙Anywhere in a word
死
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to die, impassable, uncrossable, inflexible, rigid, extremely, damned

Pinyin
sǐ
Strokes
6
Frequency
113 of 2500
Words starting with 死Words ending in 死Anywhere in a word