搜刮

Chinese

		to search	to scrape; to blow
trad. (搜刮)		搜	刮
simp. ^#(搜刮)		搜	刮
alternative forms		搜括

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sōuguā

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄡㄍㄨㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sau² gwaat³
Min Nan (POJ): so-koah / so͘-koah

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sōuguā
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄡㄍㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sougua
  - Wade–Giles: sou¹-kua¹
  - Yale: sōu-gwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sougua
  - Palladius: соугуа (sougua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯⁵⁵ kwä⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sau² gwaat³
  - Yale: sáu gwaat
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sau² gwaat⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: seo² guad³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵ kʷaːt̚³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so-koah
  - Tâi-lô: so-kuah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soi'koaq
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³ kuaʔ⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /so⁴⁴⁻²² kuaʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so͘-koah
  - Tâi-lô: soo-kuah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: so'koaq
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁴⁴⁻²² kuaʔ³²/

Verb

搜刮

to extort; to plunder; to expropriate; to fleece
巧立名目搜刮民財 [MSC, trad.]
巧立名目搜刮民财 [MSC, simp.]
qiǎolìmíngmù sōuguā míncái [Pinyin]
to extort people's wealth under all sorts of pretexts

Synonyms

吮吸 (shǔnxī) (figurative)
聚 (jù) (literary, or in compounds)
榨取 (zhàqǔ)
剝取／剥取 (bōqǔ)

強取／强取 (qiángqǔ)
摟／搂 (lōu)
聚斂／聚敛 (jùliǎn)

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