聚斂

聚敛
jùliǎn
  1. to accumulate
  2. to gather
  3. to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means
  4. (science) convergent

CEDICT

  1. to amass wealth by heavy taxation; to levy heavy taxes
  2. to collect; to gather
  3. to extort the wealth of the people

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 聚 jù
  1. to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive)
  2. (chemistry) poly-
2 斂 liǎn
  1. (literary) to hold back
  2. (literary) to restrain; to control (oneself)
  3. to collect; to gather
  4. Taiwan pr. liàn

Related entries

稹 zhěn
  1. to accumulate
  2. fine and close
積累 jīlěi
  1. to accumulate
  2. accumulation
  3. cumulative
  4. cumulatively
累 lěi
  1. to accumulate
  2. to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. lèi)
  3. continuous
  4. repeated
我累了。

I'm tired.

I am tired.

Source: Tatoeba

累積 lěijī to accumulate
他死前累積了龐大的財富。

He amassed a large fortune before he died.

Source: Tatoeba

聚積 jùjī
  1. to accumulate
  2. to collect
  3. to build up
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