"Lust" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 春 |  chūn | spring (season) / gay / joyful / youthful / love / lust / life |   |
| 性欲 | xìng yù | sexual desire / lust | |
| 情欲 | qíng yù | lust / desire / sensual | |
| 欲火 | yù huǒ | lust | |
| 色欲 | sè yù | sexual desire / lust | |
| 淫欲 | yín yù | lust | |
| 嗜欲 | shì yù | lust | |
| 淫念 | yín niàn | lust | |
| 好色 | hào sè | to want sex / given to lust / lecherous / lascivious / horny | |
| 觊觎 | jì yú | to covet / to long for / to lust after | |
| 欲海 | yù hǎi | ocean of lust (Buddhist term) / worldly desires | |
| 诲淫诲盗 | huì yín huì dào | to promote sex and violence / to stir up lust and covetousness | |
| 媟 | xiè | to lust for | |
| 精虫冲脑 | jīng chóng chōng nǎo | lit. the spermatozoons have gone to his head / fig. overwhelmed by lust | |
| 色令智昏 | sè lìng zhì hūn | to lose one's head over lust / sex-crazy (idiom) | |
| 色荒 | sè huāng | wallowing in lust | |
| 诲淫 | huì yín | to stir up lust / to promote sex / to encourage licentiousness | |
| 贪色 | tān sè | greedy for sex / given to lust for women | |
| 食色 | shí sè | food and sex / appetite and lust | |
| 食色性也 | shí sè xìng yě | Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4). / By nature we desire food and sex. | |
| 色字头上一把刀 | sè zì tóu shàng yī bǎ dāo | lit. there is a knife above the character for lust / fig. lascivious activities can lead to bitter consequences | |
| 酒不醉人人自醉，色不迷人人自迷 | jiǔ bù zuì rén rén zì zuì , sè bù mí rén rén zì mí | wine doesn't make men drunk: men get themselves intoxicated. Lust does not overpower men: men surrender themselves to lust | |
| 色胆包天 | sè dǎn bāo tiān | outrageously bold in one's lust / debauched (idiom) | |
| 熏心 | xūn xīn | (of greed, lust etc) to dominate one's thoughts | |
| 泄欲 | xiè yù | to sate one's lust | |
| 一逞兽欲 | yī chěng shòu yù | to give way to one's beastly lust | |
