Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Transitive verb
to covet; to crave; to be greedy for; to hunger for; to lust insatiably for
Usually written using kana alone
いいのよ。いままで実のないブランド品を高く売りつけて暴利をむさぼってきたんだから。今後せいぜい良心的な商売にはげめばいいんだわ。Never mind that. After all, up till now he's been stuffing himself on huge profits, selling brand-name goods of no real worth at high prices. From now on, he can just try his best at honest trade. to indulge in; to do ceaselessly; to keep doing (without losing interest)
Usually written using kana alone
to eat greedily; to devour
Usually written using kana alone
Characters in this word
1貪
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Dictionary and index codes (14)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 2-2-9 | SKIP code |
| 2a9.20 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 8080.6 | Four corner code |
| 8caa | Unicode hex code |
| 1-76-37 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 505 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 5777 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2630 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1821 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1713 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 36680 | Morohashi |
| 1837 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| tan1 | Pinyin reading |
| tam | Korean reading |