私欲
sī yù
Pinyin

Definition

私欲
 - 
sī yù
  1. selfish desire

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 desire
  2. 2 appetite
  3. 3 passion
  4. 4 lust
  5. 5 greed
yù wàng
  1. 1 desire
  2. 2 longing
  3. 3 appetite
  4. 4 craving
sī rén
  1. 1 private
  2. 2 personal
  3. 3 interpersonal
  4. 4 sb with whom one has a close personal relationship
  5. 5 a member of one's clique
sī xìn
  1. 1 private correspondence
  2. 2 personal letter
  3. 3 (computing) personal message (PM)
  4. 4 to message sb
zì sī
  1. 1 selfish
  2. 2 selfishness

Idioms (20)

以权谋私
yǐ quán móu sī
  1. 1 to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
假公济私
jiǎ gōng jì sī
  1. 1 official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
公而忘私
gōng ér wàng sī
  1. 1 for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically
  2. 2 selfless
利欲熏心
lì yù xūn xīn
  1. 1 blinded by greed (idiom)
呼之欲出
hū zhī yù chū
  1. 1 lit. ready to appear at the call (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. on the verge of coming out into the open
  3. 3 (of a person's choice etc) on the point of being disclosed
  4. 4 (of an artistic depiction) vividly portrayed