欲望 (yù wàng)
desire; longing; appetite; craving
Character breakdown
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欲 (yù) · 11 strokes
Phonosemantic compound. 欠, depicting a person with an open mouth, represents the meaning, while 谷 represents the sound.
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望 (wàng) · 11 strokes
Pictograph of a person standing up (𡈼) and gazing at the moon (月). 亡 is a sound component.