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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「苛捐雜稅」 and its explanation.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「苛捐雜稅」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Refers to the harsh and heavy taxes under reactionary rule.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kē juān zá shuì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ho1 gyun1 jaap6 seui3

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