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tariff

On-Yomi: ソ

Koohii stories:

1) [felicitygreen] 27-4-2006(206): The EU and US impose such high tariffs on food imports that third world wheat (the most basic of staples) never reaches first world supermarket shelves.

2) [wrightak] 6-8-2006(134): According to Henshall, this kanji originally represented the harvested rice (the wheat primitive) that farmers paid as a tithe. Its meaning today would seem to be very similar. Imagine the farmer putting aside some of his harvested wheat on a shelf in order to pay the tariff to his lord.

3) [dingomick] 11-3-2007(29): All the wheat imports sit on a shelf until the tariff is paid and it can be distributed.

4) [Filip] 2-3-2008(24): Tax. (Heisig is trying to hard to come up with different words) The devil who has collected wheat taxes before, stores these taxes in shelves.

5) [firion1234] 18-3-2010(5): "If WHEAT you'd like to eat," said the CAT IN THE HAT, "then you'll have to pay the sheriff a TARIFF.".

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