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欲望

yù wàng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 慾望

欲望 (yù wàng) means "desire; longing; appetite; craving". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 欲望 means

1. desire; longing; appetite; craving

The characters in 欲望

• 欲yùdesire; appetite; passion
• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect

Example sentences

• 没有欲望就等于拥有。
  Méiyǒu yùwàng jiù děngyú yōngyǒu.
  Not wanting is the same as having.
• 我没有强烈的欲望去学习。
  Wǒ méiyǒu qiángliè de yùwàng qù xuéxí.
  I don't feel like studying.
• 人收入愈高，欲望就愈大。
  Men's wants become greater in proportion to the increase in their income.
• 不要把欲望和爱情混为一谈。
  Bù yào bǎ yùwàng hé àiqíng hùnwéiyītán.
  Don't confuse desire with love.
• 广告商最基本的工作就是把人的欲望转化成需要。
  Guǎnggàoshāng zuì jīběn de gōngzuò jiùshì bǎ rén de yùwàng zhuǎnhuà chéng xūyào.
  The basic job of an advertising agency is to figure out how to turn a desire into a need.
• 许多着作都致力于研究开发小孩学习欲望的方式，但其中很少会有作品分析学校教育的强制性角色。
  The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.

Where 欲望 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yù wàng correctly.
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