婪
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avaricious
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 女 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 婪
- Common rank
- #4,530
- Unicode
- U+5A6A
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 婪
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贪婪无厌 | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied | |
| 贪婪 | avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 林 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 林 sound part | forest, grove; surname | |
| 禁 | to restrict, to prohibit, to forbid; to endure | |
| 淋 | to drench, to drip, to soak; perfectly | |
| 琳 | a beautiful gemstone | |
| 彬 | ornamental; cultivated, refined, well-bred | |
| 啉 | stupid; slow | |
| 霖 | monsoon; a long spell of rain | |
| 痲 | pock-marked; measles; leprosy | |
| 郴 | a county in Hunan province; surname |