Chinese Character 贪 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

贪 meaning[3] in English

To Have A Voracious Desire For.

To Covet.

Greedy.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are now (今) , and surname Bei (贝)

Its radical[1] is: (bei4) which means: Surname Bei, .bei4surname Bei

In cangjie it is written with OINO

How to write 贪

To writetan1to have … you should write a combination of jin1now , bei4surname Bei arranged in a shape:

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贪 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 贪 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:tan1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Have A Voracious Desire For . To Covet . Greedy . Corrupt

Pinyin:jin1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Now . The Present Time . Current . Contemporary . This (Day, Year Etc)

Pinyin:ji2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 集[Ji2]

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit

Pinyin:

Pinyin:bei4
Meaning[3]: Surname Bei

Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 贪in English or Chinese