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  1. 1.desire
  2. 2.appetite
  3. 3.passion
  4. 4.lust
  5. 5.greed
  1. 1.to wish for
  2. 2.to desire
  3. 3.variant of 欲[yù]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.wish; desire
  2. 2.to wish; to desire; to want
  3. 3.about to
  4. 4.to want (to do)
  5. 5.to wish to have or keep
  6. 6.if (an adverb expressing assumptions)
  7. 7.Used to express the coexistence of several conditions or qualities; both ... and ...
  8. 8.but; on the other hand
  9. 9.almost; nearly
  10. 10.to like
  11. 11.to want (an object)
  12. 12.to want (to do); to wish
  13. 13.to need to; must
  14. 14.to be prone; to be easy to

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, 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.).

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