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hungweiping

hungweiping is the alternative form of hongweibing.

Meaning of hongweibing

Noun

hongweibing (plural hongweibing)

  1. (historical) A red guard, a member of a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.
    • The Chinese are hastily obliterating all traces of hongweibing pogroms in Moslem mosques and other holy places. Mao's successors have been clamouring for Moslems to preserve the Islamic cultural heritage. The blame for all the excesses in the Islamic policy has been heaped upon the "gang of four"...1981, Far Eastern Affairs, number 4, Moscow: Progress Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125

Origin of hungweiping

From Mandarin 紅衛兵 /红卫兵 (hóngwèibīng), Wade–Giles romanization: hung²-wei⁴-ping¹.

Questions about hungweiping

What is hungweiping the alternative form of?
Hungweiping is the alternative form of hongweibing.

Words near hungweiping in the dictionary

  1. Hungryalism
  2. Hungryalist
  3. Hungryalists
  4. Hungs
  5. Hungtse
  6. hungweiping
  7. hungy
  8. hunh
  9. huniak
  10. huniaks
  11. Hunigoderehaa

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