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赤眉

Mandarin · pinyin Chì méi

Red Eyebrows, rebel group involved in the overthrow of the Xin dynasty 新朝 Xīn cháo

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赤: chì · red; bare; Kangxi radical 155
眉: méi · eyebrows; upper margin of book

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(archaic, historical) Chimei (refers, as an umbrella term, to one of the two major agrarian rebellion movements against Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty)

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