tān​duō​wù​dé

greedy and acquisitive

贪多务得 貪多務得 tān​duō​wù​dé
greedy and acquisitive
Originally used to describe someone striving to acquire as much knowledge as possible in their studies, but now used more generally to describe being insatiably covetous or greedy.

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