Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「徵斂無度」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「徵斂無度」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Levy: collect. Converge: gather. It refers to the rulers’ unlimited levy of taxes and plunder of the people’s wealth. Also written as “taxation without end”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhēng liǎn wú dù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jing1 lim5 mou4 dou6/dok6/dou2
Chinese idioms are vast in number, each carrying unique meanings and usages. With such variety, there’s a lot to learn and appreciate. Hopefully, these resources will aid you on your journey to mastering Chinese.
