拉夫

拉伕
lāfū
verb #35,956

Meanings

  1. 1 to press-gang
  2. 2 to forcibly conscript
  3. 3 to seize men into service

Examples

Zhànluàn shíqī, jūnduì sìchù lāfū.
In times of war, the army press-ganged people everywhere.
Tā bèi lāfū qù xiū chéngqiáng.
He was forced into labor to repair the city walls.

Tips

history
here is (fū), an old word for a corvée laborer or porter. 拉夫 was a brutal feature of warlord-era and Republican-era China — soldiers would round up peasants on the road to carry baggage or fight, often never to return home. Largely a historical/literary term today.

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