| 文化大革命 |
Wén huà Dà gé mìng |
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) |
| 文 |
Wén |
surname Wen |
| 文 |
wén |
language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 |
| 文化 |
wén huà |
culture / civilization / cultural / CL:个,种 |
| 化 |
huā |
variant of 花 |
| 化 |
huà |
to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化学 |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 革 |
gé |
animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office) |
| 革命 |
gé mìng |
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) / CL:次 |
| 命 |
mìng |
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc |