横征暴敛 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 橫征暴斂 héngzhēngbàoliǎn ㄏㄥˊ ㄓㄥ ㄅㄠˋ ㄌㄧㄢˇ to tax by force and extort levies (idiom) to screw taxes out of the people by force Character by character 横(héng)horizontal 征(zhēng)journey 暴(bào)surname Bao 敛(liǎn)hold back A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0