Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:

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On reading compounds

  • 淫 【イン】 licentiousness
  • 淫愛 【インアイ】 dirty love, sordid love
  • 売淫 【バイイン】 prostitution
  • 口淫 【コウイン】 oral sex, fellatio, cunnilingus

Kun reading compounds

  • 淫ら 【みだら】 obscene, indecent, lewd, bawdy, loose, improper, dirty

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin2
Korean:
eum

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2603 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2054 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
624 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
470 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
17678X Morohashi
3203 New Nelson (John Haig)
2298 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
788 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3a8.17 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3211.4 Four corner code
1-16-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6deb Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
longing, covetousness, greed, passion, desire, craving
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
902 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 欲 【ヨク】 greed, craving, desire, appetite, hunger, avarice, wants
  • 欲望 【ヨクボウ】 desire, appetite, lust
  • 私欲 【シヨク】 self-interest, selfish desire
  • 勤労意欲 【キンロウイヨク】 will to work

Kun reading compounds

  • 欲する 【ほっする】 to want, to desire
  • 欲しい 【ほしい】 wanting (to have), desiring, wishing for, I want (you, them, etc.) to (do)
  • 欲しいだけ 【ほしいだけ】 as much as one wants, as many as one wants, all that one wishes for

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu4
Korean:
yog

Spanish

  • anhelo
  • ansia
  • deseo
  • querer
  • desear

Portuguese

  • ambicionar
  • cobiça
  • ambição
  • paixão
  • desejo
  • almejar

French

  • désirer
  • convoitise
  • avidité
  • passion
  • besoin
876 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
997 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
987 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
999 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4461 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
535 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
650 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1127 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1179 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1124 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1122 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1867 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
990 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1341 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
800 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16080 Morohashi
1475 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2936 New Nelson (John Haig)
792 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
855 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
936 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2062 2001 Kanji
4j7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-4 SKIP code
8768.2 Four corner code
1-45-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b32 Unicode hex code