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知識青年

简知识青年 · 繁知識青年

Mandarin · pinyin zhī shi qīng nián

educated youth; young intellectual
(historical) urban youth with formal education who were sent to rural areas for re-education and labor during the Cultural Revolution (1960s–70s)

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1–5–1–2 · zhi1 shi5 qing1 nian2

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zi1 sik1 cing1 nin4

Cantonese word readings for 知識青年. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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(historical) the zhiqing, "educated youth", "rusticated youth", or "sent-down youth": the young Chinese sent from urban areas to the work in poor villages during the PRC's Down to the Countryside Movement (上山下鄉)