食色性也
Traditional form:
食色性也
Pinyin (reading):
shísèxìngyě
Definitions:
- Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4).
- By nature we desire food and sex.
Characters:
- 食 - food; to eat
- 色 - color, tint, hue, shade; beauty, form; sex
- 性 - sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective
- 也 - also, too
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