to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
trad. 吃空餉
Also written 吃空餉【chī kòng xiǎng】
Characters in this word
3吃
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to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
空
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empty, air, sky, in vain
- Pinyin
- kōng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 2458 of 2500
饷
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soldier's pay
- Pinyin
- xiǎng
- Traditional
- 餉
- Strokes
- 9