King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

慾 — Chinese character

慾
yù
passion, desire, lust; appetite

Pinyin
yù
Radical
61 ⼼ (Heart)
Strokes
15
Components
欲 心
Formation
ideographic — The heart's 心 desire 欲; 欲 also provides the pronunciation
Japanese
慾 as a kanji

慾 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 1

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.