yù
desire
Phonosemantic compound. 欠, depicting a person with an open mouth, represents the meaning, while 谷 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 欲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
desire | ||
desire | ||
to follow one's heart's desires | ||
lust | ||
appetite |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢ(r)ok | yowk | yù | desire (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 26.3495% of movies
1361st most common character in movies
1045th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6B32 |
Shuowen | “欲，貪欲也。从欠，谷聲。” |
Sources
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