# 貪婪
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tānlán
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢ ㄌㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): taam$^1$ laam$^4$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thâm-làm
* Eastern Min (BUC): tăng-làng
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tham-lâm
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$thoe-le
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tānlán
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄢ ㄌㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tanlán
*** Wade–Giles: tʻan$^1$-lan$^2$
*** Yale: tān-lán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tanlan
*** Palladius: таньлань (tanʹlanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰän⁵⁵ län³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: taam$^1$ laam$^4$
*** Yale: tāam làahm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: taam$^1$ laam$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tam$^1$ lam$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰaːm⁵⁵ laːm²¹/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâm-làm
*** Hakka Romanization System: tam$^ˊ$ lam$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: tam$^1$ lam$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰam²⁴ lam¹¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: tăng-làng
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰaŋ⁵⁵ $^{(l-)}$nˡaŋ⁵³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tham-lâm
*** Tâi-lô: tham-lâm
*** Phofsit Daibuun: tamlaam
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻²² lam²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam³³ lam²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻²² lam¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ lam²³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$thoe-le
*** MiniDict: thoe$^平$ le
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$thoe-le
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰø⁵⁵ le²¹/
* Middle Chinese: thom lom
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 | taam$^1$ | laam$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*r̥ˤ[ə]m [r]ˤ[ə]m/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰl'uːm ɡ·ruːm/
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
* rapacious; avaricious; greedy; avid

#### Synonyms

* (Min Nan) 貪嘗／贪尝

#### Derived terms

* 貪婪無厭／贪婪无厌 (tānlánwúyàn)

#### Descendants

* → 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 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.