欲壑難填
yù​hè​nán​tián

avarice knows no bounds

  • created sense approved 欲壑难填/欲壑難填 · yù​hè​nán​tián · avarice knows no bounds — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    欲壑难填 / 欲壑難填

    yù​hè​nán​tián

    avarice knows no bounds

    describes greed or desires that are like a deep valley, impossible to fill up; insatiable

    yù​huò​nán​tián

    慾壑難填

    欲 (literal) → 欲 · yù · desire 壑 (literal) → 壑 · hè · ravine 难 (literal) → 难/難 · nán · difficult 填 (literal) → 填 · tián · to fill in

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense