Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'ku' ending
to be greedy; to covet
そんなに欲をかいていると、虻蜂取らずになっちゃうよ。Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.
Also written 欲を掻く【よくをかく】
Characters in this word
1欲
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dictionary and index codes (31)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 1-7-4 | SKIP code |
| 4j7.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 8768.2 | Four corner code |
| 2062 | deroo |
| 6b32 | Unicode hex code |
| 1-45-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 4461 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 2936 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1475 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1867 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 990 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1341 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 792 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 855 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 999 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 535 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 16080 | Morohashi |
| 987 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1127 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1179 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 876 | sakade |
| 650 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 997 | henshall3 |
| 936 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1124 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1122 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 800 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| yu4 | Pinyin reading |
| yog | Korean reading |
| n3 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |
| 32 | WaniKani level |