Word Meaning 六公四民

ろくこうよんみん rokukouyommin

六公四民 is read as ろくこうよんみん (rokukouyommin) and means land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent).

Meaning

English

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

Reading

Kana

ろくこうよんみん

Romaji

rokukouyommin

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 18 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 44308 Priority G

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

四公六民

しこうろくみん

land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%

六三三四制

ろくさんさんよんせい

six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)

公民

こうみん

citizen

四民

しみん

the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)

六十四分音符

ろくじゅうしぶおんぷ

64th note

六道四生

ろくどうししょう

four kinds of birth in the six destinies

六十四卦

ろくじゅうしけ

the 64 hexagrams (of the Book of Changes)

公民館

こうみんかん

public hall

公民権

こうみんけん

civil rights

四一六事件

しいちろくじけん

April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)

四六判

しろくばん

shirokuban (paper size of 127x188mm)

四大公害病

よんだいこうがいびょう

the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease)