欲

欲 (radical 76, 欠+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金口弓人 (CRNO), four-corner 8768₂, composition ⿰谷欠)

• 慾

• KangXi: page 567, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16080
• Dae Jaweon: page 956, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2140, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6B32

Historical forms of the character 欲
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, 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.).

欲

1. wish; desire
2. to wish; to desire; to want

   • 工欲善其事，必先利其器。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: "Duke Ling of Wei," Analects of Confucius (《論語·衛靈公》)

     Gōng yù shàn qí shì, bì xiān lì qí qì. [Pinyin]

     If a workman wishes to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

   • 如閣下欲以電郵聯絡政府資訊中心，請透過網頁：XYZ傳送問題。 [MSC, trad.]
     如阁下欲以电邮联络政府资讯中心，请透过网页：XYZ传送问题。 [MSC, simp.]

     Rú géxià yù yǐ diànyóu liánluò zhèngfǔ zīxùn zhōngxīn, qǐng tòuguò wǎngyè: XYZ chuánsòng wèntí. [Pinyin]

     Please send your enquiries and suggestions to the Public Information Centre by email via the homepage: XYZ.

3. about to

From the grammaticalization of 發 (OC *pad, “to send out; to go forth; to proceed”) (Tu, 2017).

欲

1. (Hokkien, Min Dong) to want

   • 你欲佮我去圖書館無？ [Min Nan, trad.]
     你欲佮我去图书馆无？ [Min Nan, simp.]

     Lí beh kah góa khì tô͘-su-koán bô? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Do you want to go to the library with me?

2. (Hokkien, Min Dong) about to

   • 欲落雨矣，咱著出去收衫。 [Min Nan, trad.]
     欲落雨矣，咱着出去收衫。 [Min Nan, simp.]

     Beh lo̍h-hō͘--ah, lán tio̍h chhut-khì siu-saⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     It's about to rain! Let's go out to bring in the laundry.

   • 天烏烏，欲落雨。 [Min Nan, trad.]
     天乌乌，欲落雨。 [Min Nan, simp.]

     From: 《天烏烏》 (Hokkien nursery rhyme)

     Thiⁿ o͘-o͘, beh lo̍h-hō͘. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     The sky is dark; it seems like it will rain.

3. (Hokkien) if

   • 欲我，我就會較早睏。 [Min Nan, trad.]
     欲我，我就会较早困。 [Min Nan, simp.]

     Beh góa, góa tō ē khah-chá khùn. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     If I were you, I would've slept earlier.

• 要 (yào)

• “Query for 欲”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. want

• Go-on: よく (yoku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: よく (yoku, Jōyō)
• Kun: ほしい (hoshii, 欲しい, Jōyō); ほっする (hossuru, 欲する, Jōyō); ほりす (horisu, 欲す)

This character was sometimes used to phonetically transcribe the Old Japanese word for “night” (yo). [cf. Manyōshū : 4134]

• 愛 (あい)欲 (よく) (aiyoku)
• 強 (ごう)欲 (よく) (gōyoku)
• 色 (しき)欲 (よく) (shikiyoku)
• 食 (しょく)欲 (よく) (shokuyoku)
• 性 (せい)欲 (よく) (seiyoku)
• 大 (たい)欲 (よく) (taiyoku)
• 物 (ぶつ)欲 (よく) (butsuyoku)
• 無 (む)欲 (よく) (muyoku)
• 名 (めい)誉 (よ)欲 (よく) (meiyoyoku)

欲 • (yok)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 욕 (revised: yok, McCune–Reischauer: yok, Yale: yok)
  • Name (hangeul): 바랄 욕 (revised: para-r yok)

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欲 (dục, giục)

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