貪官污吏 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 贪官污吏 tānguānwūlì ㄊㄢ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄨ ㄌㄧˋ grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom) abuse and corruption Character by character 貪(tān)have a voracious desire for 官(guān)surname Guan 污(wū)dirty 吏(lì)minor government official or functionary A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0