| 欲求 | yù qiú | to desire / wants / appetites |  |
| 如意 | rú yì | as one wants / according to one's wishes / ruyi scepter, a symbol of power and good fortune |  |
| 畅所欲言 | chàng suǒ yù yán | lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom) / to preach freely on one's favorite topic / to hold forth to one's heart's content | |
| 正中下怀 | zhèng zhòng xià huái | exactly what one wants | |
| 溜须拍马 | liū xū pāi mǎ | to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom) / to use flatter to get what one wants / to toady / boot-licking | |
| 偏听偏信 | piān tīng piān xìn | selective listening / to hear what one wants to hear | |
| 掇臀捧屁 | duō tún pěng pì | to hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom) / to use flatter to get what one wants / to toady / boot-licking | |
| 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉 | lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròu | lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight | |
| 愿意不愿意 | yuàn yì bù yuàn yì | whether one wants to or not | |
| 达到目的 | dá dào mù dì | to achieve one's aim / to get what one wants | |
| 钻谋 | zuān móu | to use influence to get what one wants / to find a way through (esp. corrupt) / to succeed by means fair or foul | |
| 颐指 | yí zhǐ | to order with the chin / to indicate what one wants by facial gesture | |
| 要风得风，要雨得雨 | yào fēng dé fēng , yào yǔ dé yǔ | to get whatever one wants / to have everything going one's way | |
| 身正不怕影子斜 | shēn zhèng bù pà yǐng zi xié | lit. when a man stands straight, he doesn't worry that his shadow is slanting (idiom) / fig. as long as one conducts oneself honorably, one need not worry about what people think / a clean hand wants no washing | |
