横征暴敛
héng​zhēng​bào​liǎn

to levy exorbitant taxes

  • created sense approved 横征暴敛/橫徵暴斂 · héng​zhēng​bào​liǎn · to levy exorbitant taxes — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    横征暴敛 / 橫徵暴斂

    héng​zhēng​bào​liǎn

    to levy exorbitant taxes

    to extort taxes by force or through inventing unfair new excuses; to plunder the people's wealth through heavy taxation

    héng​zhēng​bào​liàn

    橫征暴斂

    横 (literal) → 横/橫 · héng · violent 征 (literal) → 征/徵 · zhēng · to levy 暴敛 (literal) → 暴敛/暴斂 · bào​liǎn · to overtax

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

    created sense