貪 — Chinese character

Pinyin

tān

Radical

154 ⾙ (Shell)

Strokes

11

Components

今 貝

Formation

pictophonetic — money; meaning component 貝; sound component 今

Simplified

贪

Japanese

貪 as a kanji

貪 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 2 · Zhuangzi 12 · Great Learning 1

• Analects 20.2
• Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
• Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
• Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
• Zhuangzi On Declining Power
• Zhuangzi Robber Chê
• Zhuangzi The Old Fisherman
• The Great Learning Passage 11

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