六公四民

ろくこうよんみん

Meanings

1. Noun land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent)

Kanji

• 六 six. Read as ロク.
• 公 public. Read as コウ.
• 四 four. Read as よん.
• 民 people. Read as ミン.

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