贪多务得
tān​duō​wù​dé

greedy and acquisitive

  • created reference approved 贪多务得/貪多務得 → 进学解/進學解 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    贪多务得 / 貪多務得 tān​duō​wù​dé

    进学解 / 進學解 jìn​xué​jiě

    see

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  • created sense approved 贪多务得/貪多務得 · tān​duō​wù​dé · greedy and acquisitive — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    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.

    贪多 (literal) → 贪多/貪多 · tān​duō · to be greedy for more 务 (literal) → 务/務 · wù · to seek 得 (literal) → 得 · dé · to get

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

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