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    3. 愛欲

    愛欲

    愛あい欲よく

    passion

    KMT10News #48+1NounEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab24 strokes

    愛慾

    あいよく

    Noun

    1.
    passion, sexual desire, lust
    2.
    attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex)
    Buddhism

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    彼かれは愛あい欲よくに溺おぼれてしまった。

    He succumbed to lust.

    KMT8Emotions & Psychology
    人にん間げんの愛あい欲よくは、時ときに人ひとを狂くるわせる力ちからを持もつ。

    Human lust sometimes has the power to drive people mad.

    KMT10Emotions & Psychology
    仏ぶっ教きょうでは、愛あい欲よくからの解げ脱だつが悟さとりの境ときょ地うちとされている。

    In Buddhism, liberation from attachment (or lust) is considered the state of enlightenment.

    KMT10Religion & PhilosophyEmotions & Psychology
    彼かれの詩しには、抑おさえきれない愛あい欲よくが表ひょう現げんされている。

    His poetry expresses uncontrollable passion.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyLiterature
    僧そう侶りょは愛あい欲よくを断たち切きり、修しゅ行ぎょうに励はげむ。

    Monks cut off worldly attachments (lust) and devote themselves to ascetic training.

    KMT10Religion & PhilosophyEmotions & Psychology

    Kanji that make up this word

    愛
    いと.しい・かな.しい・め.でる・お.しむ・まな…(10)
    love・affection・favourite
    欲
    ほっ.する・ほ.しい…(1)
    longing・covetousness・greed・passion・desire…(1)
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