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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「橫科暴斂」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「橫科暴斂」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Excessive taxation and forcible plunder of people’s wealth. Same as “exorbitant taxation”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

héng kē bào liǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

waang4 fo1 bou6 lim5

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