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革命
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Definitions
- 1. to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning)
- 2. revolution
- 3. revolutionary
- 4. to revolt (against sb or sth)
- 5. to revolutionize (sth)
Example Sentences
1 shown革命 万岁！
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Words Containing 革命
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
martyr to the revolution
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤[shāng tāng], of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王[zhōu wǔ wáng]
counterrevolutionary
Mt Babao Revolutionary Cemetery in Haidian district of Beijing
martyr of the revolution
French Revolution (1789-1799)
democratic revolution
the crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
October Revolution
Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
National Revolutionary Army
a revolutionary
lit. the body is the revolution's capital
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi] and the Northern Warlords
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
French Revolution (1789)
revolutionary