desire / appetite / passion / lust / greed

= + : Yu the Great (yu) suddenly feels a strong desire (欲) and appetite (欲) to eat popcorn (谷). As she opens the secret drawer in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) though she finds her popcorn gone and instead an IOU note (欠).
to wish for / to desire / variant of 慾|欲[yu4]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) suddenly feels a strong desire (欲) and appetite (欲) to eat popcorn (谷). As she opens the secret drawer in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) though she finds her popcorn gone and instead an IOU note (欠).

欲 character breakdown

grain / corn

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
surname Gu

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
valley

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
to owe / to lack / (literary) to be deficient in / (bound form) yawn / to raise slightly (a part of one's body)

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is pretty annoyed by Neanderthal Man (人), who is quarreling with the crane (⺈) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Neanderthal Man (人) owes the crane money, and the crane is waving with his IOU note (mnemonic symbol for 欠).

Characters with 欲 as component

desire / appetite / passion / lust / greed

= + : Yu the Great (yu) suddenly feels a strong desire (欲) and appetite (欲) to eat popcorn (谷). As she opens the secret drawer in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) though she finds her popcorn gone and instead an IOU note (欠).

Words with 欲

desire; longing; appetite; craving
desire / longing / appetite / craving
sexual desire / lust
to be so in pain as to not want to live / to be so grieved as to wish one were dead
greed / avarice / rapacious / avid
carnal desire
want to stop but can't (idiom) / to be unable to stop oneself / to feel an urge to continue
to drool with desire (idiom); to envy / to hunger for
lit. to drool with desire (idiom) / fig. to hunger for / greedy
see 饞涎欲滴|馋涎欲滴[chan2 xian2 yu4 di1]
lit. storm clouds approach / troubles lie ahead (idiom)
lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom)

Sentences with 欲

欲 currently does not appear in any sentence.