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    3. 欲求

    欲求

    欲よっ求きゅう

    desire

    KMT6News #13+1CoreNoun, Participle, Verb, TransitiveEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab18 strokes

    よっきゅう

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    desire, want, will, wish, urge, craving

    Stroke 0 / 18

    Speed1.0x

    人にん間げんには基き本ほん的てきな欲よっ求きゅうがあります。

    Humans have basic desires.

    KMT5Emotions & PsychologyCore Concepts
    彼かれの成せい功こうへの欲よっ求きゅうは非ひ常じょうに強つよい。

    His desire for success is very strong.

    KMT6Emotions & PsychologyWork & Career
    食しょく欲よくや睡すい眠いん欲よくは、生せい命めい維い持じに不ふ可か欠けつな生せい理り的てき欲よっ求きゅうだ。

    Appetite and the desire for sleep are physiological desires essential for sustaining life.

    KMT7Emotions & PsychologyScience & Math
    満みたされない欲よっ求きゅうは、時ときにストレスの原げん因いんとなる。

    Unsatisfied desires sometimes become a cause of stress.

    KMT7Emotions & Psychology
    自じ己こ実じつ現げんの欲よっ求きゅうは、マズローの欲よっ求きゅう段だん階かい説せつの最さい上じょう位いに位しい置ちする。

    The desire for self-actualization is positioned at the highest level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

    KMT8Emotions & PsychologyReligion & Philosophy

    Kanji that make up this word

    欲
    ほっ.する・ほ.しい…(1)
    longing・covetousness・greed・passion・desire…(1)
    求
    もと.める…(2)
    request・want・wish for・require・demand
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