觊觎 jìyú to covet Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 觊觎 覬覦 jìyú to covet (literary) to cast greedy eyes on or long for something that one is not entitled to; to have improper ambitions improper ambition (literary) a greedy desire or covetous intent to obtain something one has no right to Frequency Movie subtitles 1.76 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.47 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
觊觎 覬覦 jìyú to covet (literary) to cast greedy eyes on or long for something that one is not entitled to; to have improper ambitions improper ambition (literary) a greedy desire or covetous intent to obtain something one has no right to Frequency Movie subtitles 1.76 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.47 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
