- (bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory; inconsistent
- please (do sth) (deferential form)
- Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录
- tax system
- to design; to plan; design; plan
- to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against; to attack; to boast; Taiwan pr. [fa1]
- curve; curved line; indirect; in a roundabout way
- to reduce; to lower; to bring down
- to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant
- work; toil; physical labor; CL:次[ci4]
- zeal; initiative; enthusiasm; activity
- willingness; would rather (agree to X than Y)
- vice versa
- longitudinal; vertical
- to pay (money)
- to pay (taxes etc)
- correct; sound; right; proper
- practical; workable; to implement; to carry out; to decide
- expensive; costly
- leather jacket or coat
- to levy (a tax); to expropriate
- rich person; the rich
- to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
- to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed); to carve; to cut; to study meticulously; stingy; miserly; to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe)
- to calculate; to weigh (pros and cons); to view as profitable; worthwhile; value for money; cost-effective
- to hold (one's head) high; expensive; high (spirits etc)
- to sell; to market; sales (representative, agreement etc)
- manufacturing company
- worker; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2]
- to wrongfully withhold part of what is due (to sb); to shortchange; to skim (pay, rations, resources etc)
- to cut staff; to lay off employees
- (idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor
- poor people; the poor
- universal; general; widespread; common
- policy; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be full of; to be rich in