七公三民

Reading

Kana: しちこうさんみん

Romaji: shichikousanmin

Definition

noun

1

land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent

Note: yojijukugo

Kanji

七

Readings: シチ、 なな、 なな.つ、 なの

Meaning: seven

公

Readings: コウ、 ク、 おおやけ

Meanings: public, prince, official, governmental

三

Readings: サン、 ゾウ、 み、 み.つ、 みっ.つ

Meaning: three

民

Readings: ミン、 たみ

Meanings: people, nation, subjects