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欲yù求qiú

  1. to desire; wants; appetites

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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

2
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
求
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to seek, to look for, to request, to demand, to beseech

Pinyin
qiú
Strokes
7
Frequency
638 of 2500
Words starting with 求Words ending in 求Anywhere in a word