| 貪 | [ tān ] to have a voracious desire for, to covet, greedy, corrupt |
| 貪占 | [ tān zhàn ] to misappropriate |
| 貪吃 | [ tān chī ] gluttonous, voracious |
| 貪吃者 | [ tān chī zhě ] glutton |
| 貪吃鬼 | [ tān chī guǐ ] glutton, chowhound |
| 貪嘴 | [ tān zuǐ ] gluttonous |
| 貪圖 | [ tān tú ] to covet, to seek (riches, fame) |
| 貪多嚼不爛 | [ tān duō bù làn ] to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) |
| 貪天之功 | [ tān tiān zhī gōng ] to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom) |
| 貪婪 | [ tān lán ] avaricious, greedy, rapacious, insatiable, avid |
| 貪婪是萬惡之源 | [ tān lán shì wàn è zhī yuán ] Greed is the root of all evil. |
| 貪婪無厭 | [ tān lán wú yàn ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 貪官 | [ tān guān ] corrupt official, grasping functionary, greedy mandarin |
| 貪官污吏 | [ tān guān wū lì ] grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption |
| 貪小失大 | [ tān shī dà ] penny wise and pound foolish (idiom) |
| 貪得無厭 | [ tān dé wú yàn ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 貪得無饜 | [ tān dé wú yàn ] variant of 貪得無厭|贪得无厌[tan1 de2 wu2 yan4] |
| 貪心 | [ tān xīn ] greedy |
| 貪心不足 | [ tān xīn bù zú ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 貪慾 | [ tān yù ] greed, avarice, rapacious, avid |
| 貪戀 | [ tān liàn ] to cling to, to be reluctant to give up (sth), to have a fondness for (an indulgence etc) |
| 貪杯 | [ tān beī ] to drink in excess |
| 貪求 | [ tān qiú ] to pursue greedily, to crave |
| 貪求無厭 | [ tān qiú wú yàn ] insatiably greedy (idiom) |
| 貪汙腐化 | [ tān wū fǔ huà ] corruption |
| 貪污 | [ tān wū ] to be corrupt, corruption, to embezzle |
| 貪污腐敗 | [ tān wū fǔ baì ] corruption |
| 貪瀆 | [ tān dú ] (of an official) corrupt and negligent of his duty |
| 貪猥無厭 | [ tān weǐ wú yàn ] avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 貪玩 | [ tān wán ] to only want to have a good time, to just want to have fun, and to shy away from self-discipline |
| 貪生怕死 | [ 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 |
| 貪腐 | [ tān fǔ ] corruption |
| 貪色 | [ tān sè ] greedy for sex, given to lust for women |
| 貪財 | [ tān caí ] to be greedy in getting money |
| 貪賄無藝 | [ tān huì wú yì ] greed for bribes knows no bounds (idiom); unbridled corruption |
| 貪贓枉法 | [ tān zāng wǎng fǎ ] corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law |
| 貪鄙 | [ tān bǐ ] to be avaricious and mean |
| 貪食 | [ tān shí ] greedy, glutton |
| 貪饞 | [ tān chán ] gluttonous, greedy, insatiable, avid |
| ⇒ 反貪 | [ fǎn tān ] anti-corruption (policy) |
| ⇒ 反貪污 | [ fǎn tān wū ] anticorruption |
| ⇒ 反貪腐 | [ fǎn tān fǔ ] anti-corruption |
| ⇒ 好酒貪杯 | [ haò jiǔ tān beī ] fond of the bottle (idiom) |
| ⇒ 桀貪驁詐 | [ jié tān aò zhà ] brutal, greedy, arrogant and deceitful (idiom) |
| ⇒ 起早貪黑 | [ qǐ zaǒ tān heī ] to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late |