贪婪是万恶之源

Traditional form:

貪婪是萬惡之源

Pinyin (reading):

tānlánshìwàn'èzhīyuán

Definitions:

• Greed is the root of all evil.

Characters:

• 贪 - greedy, covetous; corrupt
• 婪 - to covet; covetous, avaricious
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 万 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 恶 - bad, evil, wicked; to hate, to loathe; foul, nauseating
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 源 - spring; source, root, head; surname

Traditional characters:

• 貪 - greedy, covetous; corrupt
• 婪 - to covet; covetous, avaricious
• 是 - to be; indeed, right, yes; okay
• 萬 - ten thousand; innumerable
• 惡 - bad, evil, wicked; to hate, to loathe; foul, nauseating
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 源 - spring; source, root, head; surname