to accumulate wealth without satisfaction; to continually plunder (idiom)
trad. 裒斂無厭
Also written 裒斂無厭【póu liǎn wú yàn】
Characters in this word
4裒
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collect
- Pinyin
- póu
- Strokes
- 12
敛
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(literary) to hold back, (literary) to restrain; to control (oneself), to collect; to gather, Taiwan pr. [lian4]
- Pinyin
- liǎn
- Traditional
- 斂
- Strokes
- 11
无
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used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
- Pinyin
- mó
- Traditional
- 無
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 1404 of 2500
厌
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(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with, (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
- Pinyin
- yàn
- Traditional
- 厭
- Strokes
- 6