| 贪 | [ tān ] to have a voracious desire for, to covet, greedy, corrupt |
| 贪占 | [ tān zhàn ] to misappropriate |
| 贪吃 | [ tān chī ] gluttonous, voracious |
| 贪吃者 | [ tān chī zhě ] glutton |
| 贪吃鬼 | [ tān chī guǐ ] glutton, chowhound |
| 贪嘴 | [ tān zuǐ ] gluttonous |
| 贪图 | [ tān tú ] to covet, to seek (riches, fame) |
| 贪多嚼不烂 | [ tān duō bù làn ] to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) |
| 贪天之功 | [ tān tiān zhī gōng ] to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom) |
| 贪婪 | [ tān lán ] avaricious, greedy, rapacious, insatiable, avid |
| 贪婪是万恶之源 | [ tān lán shì wàn è zhī yuán ] Greed is the root of all evil. |
| 贪婪无厌 | [ tān lán wú yàn ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 贪官 | [ tān guān ] corrupt official, grasping functionary, greedy mandarin |
| 贪官污吏 | [ tān guān wū lì ] grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption |
| 贪小失大 | [ tān shī dà ] penny wise and pound foolish (idiom) |
| 贪得无厌 | [ tān dé wú yàn ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 贪得无餍 | [ tān dé wú yàn ] variant of 貪得無厭|贪得无厌[tan1 de2 wu2 yan4] |
| 贪心 | [ tān xīn ] greedy |
| 贪心不足 | [ tān xīn bù zú ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 贪欲 | [ tān yù ] greed, avarice, rapacious, avid |
| 贪恋 | [ tān liàn ] to cling to, to be reluctant to give up (sth), to have a fondness for (an indulgence etc) |
| 贪杯 | [ tān beī ] to drink in excess |
| 贪求 | [ tān qiú ] to pursue greedily, to crave |
| 贪求无厌 | [ tān qiú wú yàn ] insatiably greedy (idiom) |
| 贪汙腐化 | [ tān wū fǔ huà ] corruption |
| 贪污 | [ tān wū ] to be corrupt, corruption, to embezzle |
| 贪污腐败 | [ tān wū fǔ baì ] corruption |
| 贪渎 | [ tān dú ] (of an official) corrupt and negligent of his duty |
| 贪猥无厌 | [ tān weǐ wú yàn ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 贪玩 | [ tān wán ] to only want to have a good time, to just want to have fun, and to shy away from self-discipline |
| 贪生怕死 | [ tān shēng pà sǐ ] greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly, clinging abjectly to life, only interested in saving one's neck |
| 贪腐 | [ tān fǔ ] corruption |
| 贪色 | [ tān sè ] greedy for sex, given to lust for women |
| 贪财 | [ tān caí ] to be greedy in getting money |
| 贪贿无艺 | [ tān huì wú yì ] greed for bribes knows no bounds (idiom); unbridled corruption |
| 贪赃枉法 | [ tān zāng wǎng fǎ ] corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law |
| 贪鄙 | [ tān bǐ ] to be avaricious and mean |
| 贪食 | [ tān shí ] greedy, glutton |
| 贪馋 | [ tān chán ] gluttonous, greedy, insatiable, avid |
| ⇒ 反贪 | [ fǎn tān ] anti-corruption (policy) |
| ⇒ 反贪污 | [ fǎn tān wū ] anticorruption |
| ⇒ 反贪腐 | [ fǎn tān fǔ ] anti-corruption |
| ⇒ 好酒贪杯 | [ haò jiǔ tān beī ] fond of the bottle (idiom) |
| ⇒ 桀贪骜诈 | [ jié tān aò zhà ] brutal, greedy, arrogant and deceitful (idiom) |
| ⇒ 起早贪黑 | [ qǐ zaǒ tān heī ] to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late |
