利令智昏

Traditional form:

利令智昏

Pinyin (reading):

lìlìngzhìhūn

Definitions:

• to lose one's head through material greed (idiom)

Characters:

• 利 - gains, advantage, profit, merit
• 令 - command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause
• 智 - wisdom, knowledge, intelligence
• 昏 - dusk, nightfall, twilight, dark; to faint, to lose consciousness

Traditional characters:

• 利 - gains, advantage, profit, merit
• 令 - command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause
• 智 - wisdom, knowledge, intelligence
• 昏 - dusk, nightfall, twilight, dark; to faint, to lose consciousness