知識青年
简 知识青年 · 繁 知識青年Meanings
- 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
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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)
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