xún shū yuè sòngdictionary entry
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pay every ten days, give tribute every month (idiom) / incessant and ever more complicated demands
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Original source entry:

旬輸月送 旬输月送 [xun2 shu1 yue4 song4] /pay every ten days, give tribute every month (idiom); incessant and ever more complicated demands/

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Other forms in these source records: 旬輸月送

  • 旬
    xún

    (bound form) ten-day period / one of the three ten-day divisions of a month (e.g. 上旬[shàng xún]) / (bound form) ten years (in age expressions, e.g. 六旬[liù xún] "sixty years old")

  • 输
    shū

    to lose / to be beaten / (bound form) to transport / (literary) to donate / to contribute / (coll.) to enter (a password)

  • 月
    yuè

    moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[gè],輪|轮[lún]

  • 送
    sòng

    to send / to deliver / to transmit / to give (as a present) / to see (sb) off / to accompany / to go along with

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