税

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taxes; duties

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

Grain 禾 paid as tribute 兑; 兑 also provides the pronunciation

Components 禾兑

tax · Heisig RSH #2012

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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
人头税	rén tóu shuì	poll tax
通行税	tōng xíng shuì	toll
利得税	lì dé shuì	profit tax
个人所得税	gè rén suǒ dé shuì	personal income tax
保税区	bǎo shuì qū	duty-free district; tariff-free zone; bonded area
物业税	wù yè shuì	property tax
纳税人	nà shuì rén	taxpayer
地产税	dì chǎn shuì	property tax
市政税	shì zhèng shuì	city council rates; municipal taxes
报税单	bào shuì dān	to declare to customs or to the taxman
印花税	yìn huā shuì	stamp duty
所得税	suǒ dé shuì	income tax
报税表	bào shuì biǎo	a tax return; a tax declaration form
国税局	Guó shuì jú	(Tw) National Taxation Bureau, local branch of the Ministry of Finance 財政部\|财政部[Cai2 zheng4…
关税国境	guān shuì guó jìng	customs border
地税	dì shuì	local tax (abbr. for 地方稅\|地方税[di4 fang1 shui4]); land tax (abbr. for 土地稅\|土地税[tu3 di4 shui4]…
间接税	jiàn jiē shuì	indirect tax
税金	shuì jīn	tax money (paid or due)
上税	shàng shuì	to pay taxes
税法	shuì fǎ	tax code; tax law