「貪字得個貧」
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Pronunciation: | taam1 zi6 dak1 go3 pan4 |
Individual Character Meaning: |
貪 to be greedy; to covet; to take bribe 字 character; character; word; five minutes; script; handwriting; penmanship; calligraphy; tails (of a coin) 得 okay; to get; only have; (suffix); advantage; gain; to only have; acceptable; can; able to; great; good; to have even done; to receive; to calculate; to compute; to equal to; to stay still 個 (measure); dollar 貧 to lack; short of; inadequate |
Part of Speech: | expression |
Explanation: |
being greedy will make one suffer losses; grasp all, lose all; literally: the character for "greed" (貪) leads to that for "poverty" (貧) (based on their graphical similarity)
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