to have a voracious desire for / to covet / greedy / corrupt
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
avaricious / greedy / rapacious / insatiable / avid
greedy
to be corrupt / corruption / to embezzle
avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied
gluttonous / voracious
greed / avarice / rapacious / avid
to covet / to seek (riches, fame)
to misappropriate
glutton / chowhound
gluttonous
to bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)
avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied
corrupt official / grasping functionary / greedy mandarin
grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom) / abuse and corruption
penny wise and pound foolish (idiom)
avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied
greed
to cling to / to be reluctant to give up (sth) / to have a fondness for (an indulgence etc)
to drink in excess
to pursue greedily / to crave
insatiably greedy (idiom)
(idiom) corruption
corruption
(of an official) corrupt and negligent of his duty
avaricious and insatiable (idiom) / greedy and never satisfied
to only want to have a good time / to just want to have fun, and to shy away from self-discipline
erhua variant of 貪玩|贪玩[]
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom) / craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
corruption
greedy for sex / given to lust for women
to be greedy in getting money
greed for bribes knows no bounds (idiom) / unbridled corruption
corruption and abuse of the law (idiom) / to take bribes and bend the law
to be avaricious and mean
gluttonous / greedy
gluttonous / greedy / insatiable / avid
anti-corruption (policy)
anticorruption
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27