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賦
简 赋 · 繁 賦Mandarin · pinyin fù
Meanings
- poetic essay
- taxation
- to bestow on
- to endow with
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4 · fu4
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- to bestow upon; to give
- to compose or sing
- to spread; to disseminate
- to collect; to impose; to levy
- taxation; revenue
- natural endowment
- fu, a literature form developed during the Han dynasty that combines prose and poetry, sometimes translated as ode or rhapsody
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