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贪得无厌

tān dé wú yàn

4-character word Traditional 貪得無厭

What 贪得无厌 means

1. avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied

The characters in 贪得无厌

• 贪tānto have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 厌yàn(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy

Example sentences

• 贪得无厌。
  Tāndéwúyàn.
  Insatiably greedy.

Sounds the same

Read tān dé wú yàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 贪得无餍variant of 贪得无厌