敛 — Chinese character
敛
liǎn
to collect, to extort
- Pinyin
- liǎn
- Radical
- 66 ⽁ (Rap)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 佥 攵
- Formation
- pictophonetic — strike; meaning component 攵; sound component 佥
- Traditional
- 斂
Common words with 敛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 收敛 (收斂) | shōu liǎn | to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish; to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc) |
| 敛财 (斂財) | liǎn cái | to accumulate wealth; to rake in money |
| 内敛 (內斂) | nèi liǎn | introverted; reserved |
| 聚敛 (聚斂) | jù liǎn | to gather; to accumulate; (esp.) to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means; (science) convergent |
| 暴敛 (暴斂) | bào liǎn | to overtax; to extort |
| 横征暴敛 (橫征暴斂) | héng zhēng bào liǎn | to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force |
| 收敛性 (收斂性) | shōu liǎn xìng | convergence (math.); astringent |
| 敛迹 (斂跡) | liǎn jì | to refrain; to give up evil (temporarily) |
| 征敛 (征斂) | zhēng liǎn | to extort taxes |
| 征敛无度 (征斂無度) | zhēng liǎn wú dù | to extort taxes excessively |
| 收敛序列 (收斂序列) | shōu liǎn xù liè | convergent sequence (math.) |
| 收敛级数 (收斂級數) | shōu liǎn jí shù | convergent series (math.) |
English words written with 敛
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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