lán
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 greedy; avaricious

Examples

HSK 7-9
Tā tānlán de dīng zhe huángjīn.
He gazed at the gold with greedy eyes.
HSK 7-9
Tānlán zhǐ huì gěi nǐ dàilái máfan.
Greed will only bring you trouble.

Tips

usage
Bound character: it lives in 贪婪 (greedy, rapacious). An old gloss split the pair as 'loving money is , loving food is ', though today the word is just one idea: insatiable greed.

Components

radical
woman; female
Bottom woman radical is the indexing radical. The link is structural rather than meaning-based: many trait words were historically filed under ; greed itself has no gender.
phonetic
lín
forest; woods
Top supplies the sound (lín shifting to lán). Two trees side by side; here it works as the phonetic of .

Stroke Order

lán