敛

to hold back / to restrain / to control (oneself) / to collect / Taiwan pr. [lian4]

variant of 殮|殓[lian4]

all

variant of 攴[pu1]

to dwindle / to vanish / to make vanish / to exercise restraint / to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc) / to astringe / (math.) to converge

to accumulate wealth / to rake in money

to extort taxes excessively

convergent sequence (math.)

convergence (math.) / astringent

convergent series (math.)

to draw in one's claws / to show some modesty

(dialect) to gather (sth)

to restrain motion / to check one's step

old-fashioned women's obeisance / Taiwan pr. [lian4 ren4]

to refrain / to give up evil (temporarily) / to cover one's traces / to lie low / to retire (from view)

to collect money / to raise funds (for charity)

to overtax / to extort

to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force

to levy exorbitant taxes (idiom)

to accumulate / to gather / to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means / (science) convergent

to accumulate wealth without satisfaction / to continually plunder (idiom)

(literary) to slow down one's steps; to come to a halt

introverted / reserved / (artistic style) understated

to extort taxes