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贪

Traditional (Taiwan): 貪

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

tān ㄊㄢ

    • to have a voracious desire for
    • to covet
    • greedy
    • corrupt

Other words read tān

In the same tone

  • 滩 tān beach
  • 摊 tān spread out
  • 瘫 tān paralyzed
  • 坍 tān collapse
  • 怹 tān he

All 6 words read tān

tan with other tones

  • 谈 tán speak
  • 坛 tán altar
  • 弹 tán pluck
  • 叹 tàn sigh
  • 探 tàn explore

All 39 words read tan in any tone

How 贪 is written

    部首 radical
    贝
    笔画 strokes
    8, with 4 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    上下结构
    偏旁 parts
    今贝
    形旁 meaning
    贝
    声旁 sound
    今

    Words with 贪

    Starting with 贪

    All 36 words starting with 贪

    Ending with 贪

    • 反贪 fǎntān anti-corruption

    Containing 贪

    • 起早贪黑 qǐzǎotānhēi be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
    • 好酒贪杯 hàojiǔtānbēi fond of the bottle
    • 反贪污 fǎntānwū anticorruption
    • 桀贪骜诈 jiétānàozhà brutal, greedy, arrogant and deceitful
    • 反贪腐 fǎntānfǔ anti-corruption

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