贪 — Chinese character
贪
tān
greedy, covetous; corrupt
- Pinyin
- tān
- Radical
- 154 ⾙ (Shell)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 今 贝
- Formation
- pictophonetic — money; meaning component 贝; sound component 今
- Traditional
- 貪
Common words with 贪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贪污 (貪污) | tān wū | to be corrupt; corruption |
| 贪婪 (貪婪) | tān lán | avaricious; greedy |
| 贪腐 (貪腐) | tān fǔ | corruption |
| 贪官 (貪官) | tān guān | corrupt official; grasping functionary |
| 贪心 (貪心) | tān xīn | greedy |
| 贪污腐败 (貪污腐敗) | tān wū fǔ bài | corruption |
| 反贪 (反貪) | fǎn tān | anti-corruption (policy) |
| 贪官污吏 (貪官污吏) | tān guān wū lì | grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption |
| 贪图 (貪圖) | tān tú | to covet; to seek (riches, fame) |
| 贪得无厌 (貪得無厭) | tān dé wú yàn | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 贪吃 (貪吃) | tān chī | gluttonous; voracious |
| 贪欲 (貪慾) | tān yù | greed; avarice |
English words written with 贪
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.