"Greedy" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 贪婪 | tān lán | avaricious / greedy / rapacious / insatiable / avid |   |
| 馋 |  chán | gluttonous / greedy / to have a craving | |
| 贪心 | tān xīn | greedy | |
| 贪食 | tān shí | gluttonous / greedy | |
| 馋涎欲滴 | chán xián yù dī | lit. to drool with desire (idiom) / fig. to hunger for / greedy | |
| 贪 | tān | to have a voracious desire for / to covet / greedy / corrupt | |
| 饕 | tāo | (literary) greedy / gluttonous | |
| 餮 | tiè | (literary) greedy / gluttonous | |
| 亄 | yì | covetous / greedy / stingy | |
| 嚵 | chán | (variant of 饞|馋[chan2]) gluttonous / greedy | |
| 贪馋 | tān chán | gluttonous / greedy / insatiable / avid | |
| 贪官 | tān guān | corrupt official / grasping functionary / greedy mandarin | |
| 觊觎 | jì yú | (literary) to covet / to cast greedy eyes on | |
| 贪财 | tān cái | to be greedy in getting money | |
| 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 | |
| 贪得无厌 | tān dé wú yàn | avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied | |
| 饕餮之徒 | tāo tiè zhī tú | glutton / gourmand / by extension, person who is greedy for power, money, sex etc | |
| 贪婪无厌 | tān lán wú yàn | avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied | |
| 染指垂涎 | rǎn zhǐ chuí xián | lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom) / fig. greedy to seize sth | |
| 桀贪骜诈 | jié tān ào zhà | brutal, greedy, arrogant and deceitful (idiom) | |
| 贪心不足 | tān xīn bù zú | avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied | |
| 贪求无厌 | tān qiú wú yàn | insatiably greedy (idiom) | |
| 贪猥无厌 | tān wěi wú yàn | avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied | |
| 多吃多占 | duō chī duō zhàn | taking or eating more than one's due (idiom) / greedy and selfish | |
| 血盆大口 | xuè pén dà kǒu | bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom) / ferocious mouth of beast of prey / fig. greedy exploiter / rapacious aggressor | |
| 贪爵慕位 | tān jué mù wèi | to be greedy for nobility and admire social position (idiom) | |
| 贪色 | tān sè | greedy for sex / given to lust for women | |
| 馋人 | chán rén | to make one's mouth water / appetizing / greedy person / glutton | |
| 馋鬼 | chán guǐ | glutton / greedy pig | |
| 吃人不吐骨头 | chī rén bù tǔ gǔ tóu | ruthless / vicious and greedy | |
| 欲壑难填 | yù hè - nán tián | (idiom) insatiably greedy | |
