To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「橫賦暴斂」 explained, free of charge.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「橫賦暴斂」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Heng and Bao: cruel, tyrannical, and vicious; Fu and Liang: levy taxes and accumulate wealth. Imposing heavy taxes and levies tyrannically and brutally. Describes the reactionary ruling class’s greed, cruelty, and crimes of plundering the people.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
héng fù bào liǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
waang4 fu3 bou6 lim5
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
