贪心不足 — Chinese idiom
贪心不足
tān xīn bù zú
Traditional: 貪心不足
Meaning
- avaricious and insatiable ; greedy and never satisfied
Character by character
- 贪tāngreedy, covetous; corrupt
- 心xīnheart; mind; soul
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 足zúfoot; to attain, to satisfy; enough
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
- 贪得无厌 tān dé wú yàn
- 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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