贪 (tān) means Corrupt (greedy - crave - covet). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他因 贪 污被判了刑。
Tā yīn tānwū bèi pàn le xíng.
He was sentenced for embezzlement.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贪污
贪 心最终毁灭了他自己。
Tānxīn zuìzhōng huǐmiè le tā zìjǐ.
Greed destroyed him in the end.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 毁灭
贪 婪往往让人失去理智。
Tānlán wǎngwǎng ràng rén shīqù lǐzhì.
Greed often makes people lose their reason.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贪婪
父亲告诫他不要 贪 图小便宜。
Fùqīn gàojiè tā bú yào tāntú xiǎo piányi.
His father warned him not to grasp at petty advantages.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 告诫
制度上的漏洞容易滋生 贪 污。
Zhìdù shang de lòudòng róngyì zīshēng tānwū.
Loopholes in the system easily breed corruption.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贪污
他 贪 婪地读着每一本能找到的书。
Tā tānlán de dúzhe měi yì běn néng zhǎodào de shū.
He devoured every book he could find.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贪婪
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Questions about 贪
How is 贪 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 贪 (tān, "Corrupt (greedy - crave - covet)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 贪 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 贪 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
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The dictionary page for 贪 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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