貪婪

See also: 贪婪

Chinese

greedy avaricious
trad. (貪婪) 貪 婪
simp. (贪婪) 贪 婪

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 貪 婪
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 覃 (159) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 他含切 盧含切
Baxter thom lom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰʌm/ /lʌm/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰəm/ /ləm/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɒm/ /lɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰəm/ /ləm/
Li
Rong
/tʰᴀm/ /lᴀm/
Wang
Li
/tʰɒm/ /lɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰăm/ /lăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tān lán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
taam1 laam4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 貪 婪
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tān lán
Middle
Chinese
‹ thom › ‹ lom ›
Old
Chinese
/*r̥ˁ[ə]m/ /*[r]ˁ[ə]m/
English to covet to covet

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 貪 婪
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 6552 8160
Phonetic
component
今 林
Rime
group
侵 侵
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
探 婪
Old
Chinese
/*kʰl'uːm/ /*ɡ·ruːm/

Adjective

貪婪

  1. rapacious; avaricious; greedy; avid

Synonyms

  • (Min Nan) 貪嘗/贪尝

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (貪婪):
  • → Japanese: 貪婪(どんらん) (donran); 貪婪(たんらん) (tanran)
  • → Korean: 탐람(貪婪) (tamnam)
  • → Vietnamese: tham lam (貪婪)

References

“Entry #50959”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.

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