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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「貪婪無厭」, explained here.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「貪婪無厭」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Greed is never satisfied. Same as “greedy”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tān lán wú yàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

taam1 laam4 mou4 yim3

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