| tān | greedy |
| 贪 | to have a voracious desire for to covet greedy |
| 贪便宜 | anxious to get things on the cheap |
| 贪占 | embezzle |
| 贪吃 | gluttonous voracious |
| 贪吃症 | [Medicine] polyphagia |
| 贪吃者 | glutton |
| 贪嘴 | gluttonous |
| 贪图 | to covet to seek (riches, fame) |
| 贪图安逸 | to seek ease and comfort |
| 贪图小利 | to covet small advantages; to hanker after petty gains |
| 贪多 | grasp too much |
| 贪多务得 | insatiable covetousness |
| 贪多嚼不烂 | to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) |
| 贪大求洋 | crave for things big and foreign; go after what is big and foreign |
| 贪天之功 | take credit for what has been done by others |
| 贪婪 | avaricious greedy rapacious |
| 贪婪是万恶之源 | Greed is the root of all evil. |
| 贪官 | corrupt official grasping functionary greedy mandarin |
| 贪官污吏 | grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption |
| 贪小 | covet a little |