to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)
trad. 貪天之功
Also written 貪天之功【tān tiān zhī gōng】
Characters in this word
4贪
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to have a voracious desire for, to covet, greedy, corrupt
- Pinyin
- tān
- Traditional
- 貪
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 27733 of 2500
天
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day, sky, heaven
- Pinyin
- tiān
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 211 of 2500
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
功
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meritorious deed or service, achievement, result, service, accomplishment, work (physics)
- Pinyin
- gōng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 27779 of 2500