likin

 

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Likin (taxation)

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• lekin, lijin

Borrowed from Mandarin 釐金 (líjīn).

• IPA^(key): /ˌliːˈkɪn/

likin (countable and uncountable, plural likins)

1. (obsolete, historical) A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.
   • 2013, Chihyun Chang, Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China: The Maritime Customs Service and Its Chinese Staff:

     The main theme of the conference was to levy the 2.5 per cent surtax in exchange for abolition of likin, which would benefit the powers and the Beijing government. The Beijing government proposed to abolish the likin no later than 1 January 1929, for which the powers would allow the interim surtax on ordinary goods and a higher percentage on luxury goods such as wine and tobacco.

• Hyphenation: li‧kin

likin

1. tobacco rolled in leaves of the Syzygium cumini tree

liki- +‎ -in (superlative)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlikin/, [ˈlik̟in]
• Rhymes: -ikin
• Hyphenation^(key): li‧kin

likin

1. closest, nearest

• “likin”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• kilin

likin

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of liken (“to like”)