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Chinese symbol for “taxation”

税收
shuì shōu
Traditional: 稅收
taxation

The closest CC-CEDICT match for taxation is 税收 (shuì shōu), defined as: taxation.

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Characters and stroke order

税 shuì
taxes
radical 115 ⽲ · 12 strokes
收 shōu
to collect, to gather, to harvest
radical 66 ⽁ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “taxation”

WordPinyinMeaning
赋税 (賦稅)fù shuìtaxation
租税 (租稅)zū shuìtaxation; in former times, esp. land tax
赋 (賦)fùpoetic essay; taxation

Related words

Other words that share a character with 税收.

WordPinyinMeaning
关税 (關稅)guān shuìcustoms duty; tariff
税务 (稅務)shuì wùtaxation services; state revenue service
纳税 (納稅)nà shuìto pay taxes
纳税人 (納稅人)nà shuì réntaxpayer
税率 (稅率)shuì lǜtax rate
收入shōu rùto take in; income
收到shōu dàoto receive
收集shōu jíto gather; to collect

See also: Japanese symbol for “taxation”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.