Word Meaning 四公六民

しこうろくみん shikourokumin

四公六民 is read as しこうろくみん (shikourokumin) and means land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%.

Meaning

English

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

Reading

Kana

しこうろくみん

Romaji

shikourokumin

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 18 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 44286 Priority G

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

六公四民

ろくこうよんみん

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

四民

しみん

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

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)

四民平等

しみんびょうどう

equality for the four classes (early Meiji-period slogan)

公民

こうみん

citizen

四六時中

しろくじちゅう

around the clock

四分六

しぶろく

six to four ratio

公民館

こうみんかん

public hall

公民権

こうみんけん

civil rights

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)