贪得无厌 — Chinese idiom
贪得无厌
tān dé wú yàn
Traditional: 貪得無厭
Meaning
- avaricious and insatiable ; greedy and never satisfied
Character by character
- 贪tāngreedy, covetous; corrupt
- 得déto obtain, to get, to acquire; suitable, proper; r
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 厌yànto dislike, to detest; to reject; to satiate
Idioms sharing a character
- 好酒贪杯 hào jiǔ tān bēi
- 桀贪骜诈 jié tān ào zhà
- 贪天之功 tān tiān zhī gōng
- 贪婪无厌 tān lán wú yàn
- 贪官污吏 tān guān wū lì
- 贪小失大 tān xiǎo shī dà
- 贪心不足 tān xīn bù zú
- 贪求无厌 tān qiú wú yàn
- 贪污腐化 tān wū fǔ huà
- 贪猥无厌 tān wěi wú yàn
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