私欲
sī yù
Pinyin
Definition
私欲
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- selfish desire
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 desire
- 2 appetite
- 3 passion
- 4 lust
- 5 greed
- 1 desire
- 2 longing
- 3 appetite
- 4 craving
- 1 private
- 2 personal
- 3 interpersonal
- 4 sb with whom one has a close personal relationship
- 5 a member of one's clique
- 1 private correspondence
- 2 personal letter
- 3 (computing) personal message (PM)
- 4 to message sb
- 1 selfish
- 2 selfishness
Idioms (20)
以权谋私
- 1 to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
假公济私
- 1 official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
公而忘私
- 1 for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically
- 2 selfless
利欲熏心
- 1 blinded by greed (idiom)
呼之欲出
- 1 lit. ready to appear at the call (idiom)
- 2 fig. on the verge of coming out into the open
- 3 (of a person's choice etc) on the point of being disclosed
- 4 (of an artistic depiction) vividly portrayed