desire strongly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
见 meaning component

  Meaning component

jiànxiàn

  

see

俞 sound component

  Sound component

shù

  

surname

Evolution

觎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
觎 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
觎 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
觎 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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desire strongly, covet, long for; to desire passionately

Most common words with 觎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

觊觎

to covet

to desire passionately

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4520th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+89CE


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