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"Blue Revolution" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
蓝色革命 藍色革命 Blue Revolution
Chinese Pinyin Translation
蓝色 藍色 lán sè blue (color)
万岁 萬歲 wàn suì Long live (the king, the revolution etc)! / Your Majesty / His Majesty syn
风暴 風暴 fēng bào storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc) syn
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[ci4] syn
蓝天 藍天 lán tiān blue sky syn
千载难逢 千載難逢 qiān zǎi nán féng extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon syn
碧眼 bì yǎn blue eyes
火种 火種 huǒ zhǒng tinder / source of a fire / inflammable material / (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc)
插队 插隊 chā duì to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution) syn
燃起 rán qǐ to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
蓝领 藍領 lán lǐng blue-collar / blue-collar worker
蔚蓝 蔚藍 wèi lán azure / sky-blue syn
遍体鳞伤 遍體鱗傷 biàn tǐ lín shāng covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises syn
深蓝 深藍 shēn lán dark blue syn
狂飙 狂飆 kuáng biāo hurricane / violent reform or revolution / violent movement or force syn
五彩 wǔ cǎi five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored syn
青色 qīng sè cyan / blue-green syn
翠绿 翠綠 cuì lǜ greenish-blue / emerald green syn
晴天霹雳 晴天霹靂 qíng tiān pī lì lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom) / fig. a bolt from the blue syn
大革命 dà gé mìng great revolution
青天 qīng tiān clear sky / blue sky / upright and honorable (official) syn
青筋 qīng jīn veins / blue veins syn
蓝鲸 藍鯨 lán jīng blue whale
四人帮 四人幫 sì rén bāng Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青[Jiang1 Qing1], Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥[Zhang1 Chun1 qiao2], Yao Wenyuan 姚文元[Yao2 Wen2 yuan2], Wang Hongwen 王洪文[Wang2 Hong2 wen2], who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
碧蓝 碧藍 bì lán dark blue syn
批斗 批鬥 pī dòu to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution)
公转 公轉 gōng zhuàn orbital revolution
苍穹 蒼穹 cāng qióng the blue dome of heaven syn
牛棚 niú péng cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen
沧海桑田 滄海桑田 cāng hǎi sāng tián lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world syn
文化大革命 wén huà dà gé mìng Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
天蓝 天藍 tiān lán sky blue syn
青花 qīng huā blue and white (porcelain)
青花瓷 qīng huā cí blue and white porcelain
蓝藻 藍藻 lán zǎo cyanobacterium (blue-green alga)
红卫兵 紅衛兵 hóng wèi bīng Red Guards (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976)
小将 小將 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) syn
知青 zhī qīng educated youth (sent to work in farms during the Cultural Revolution), abbr. for 知識青年|知识青年[zhi1 shi5 qing1 nian2] syn
碧空 bì kōng the blue sky syn
民主革命 mín zhǔ gé mìng democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
邓小平理论 鄧小平理論 dèng xiǎo píng lǐ lùn Deng Xiaoping Theory / Dengism / the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control
文革 wén gé Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命[Wen2 hua4 Da4 ge2 ming4])
蓝筹股 藍籌股 lán chóu gǔ blue chip stock
林彪 lín biāo Lin Biao (1908-1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution
陕北 陝北 shǎn běi Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地
淡蓝色 淡藍色 dàn lán sè light blue
刘少奇 劉少奇 liú shào qí Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
苍龙 蒼龍 cāng lóng Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky) syn
彭德怀 彭德懷 péng dé huái Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
辛亥革命 xīn hài gé mìng Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty syn
工业革命 工業革命 gōng yè gé mìng Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
绩优股 績優股 jì yōu gǔ gilt-edged stock / blue chip stock
贺龙 賀龍 hè lóng He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution
辛亥 xīn hài forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], Xinhai Revolution of 1911
青出于蓝 青出於藍 qīng chū yú lán lit. green is born of blue, but beats blue (idiom) / fig. the student becomes superior to the master / same as couplet 青出於藍,而勝於藍|青出于蓝,而胜于蓝 syn
黄兴 黃興 huáng xīng Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician, close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], murdered in Shanghai in 1916
蓝龙 藍龍 lán lóng blue
蓝月亮 藍月亮 lán yuè liang Blue Moon, a hypothetical planet
反清 fǎn qīng anti-Qing / refers to the revolutionary movements in late 19th and early 20th century leading up to 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4]
十月革命 shí yuè gé mìng October Revolution
新文化运动 新文化運動 xīn wén huà yùn dòng the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
石青 shí qīng azurite / copper azurite 2CuCO3-Cu(OH)2 / azure blue
周作人 zhōu zuò rén Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
新民主主义革命 新民主主義革命 xīn mín zhǔ zhǔ yì gé mìng (Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution) syn
宝蓝 寶藍 bǎo lán sapphire blue syn
样板戏 樣板戲 yàng bǎn xì model theater (operas and ballets produced during the Cultural Revolution)
资产阶级革命 資產階級革命 zī chǎn jiē jí gé mìng bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
康生 kāng shēng Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses
藏青色 zàng qīng sè navy blue
秋瑾 qiū jǐn Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films
华国锋 華國鋒 huá guó fēng Hua Guofeng (1921-), leader of Chinese Communist Party after the Cultural Revolution
蓝色基因 藍色基因 lán sè jī yīn Blue
走资派 走資派 zǒu zī pài capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution)
朦胧诗 朦朧詩 méng lóng shī Misty Poetry, a post-Cultural Revolution poetry movement
蓝 藍 lán blue / indigo plant syn
青 qīng green / blue / black / youth / young (of people) syn
碧 bì green jade / bluish green / blue / jade syn
苍 蒼 cāng dark blue / deep green / ash-gray syn
青瓦台 青瓦臺 qīng wǎ tái the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948-2022), now a public park
海军蓝 海軍藍 hǎi jūn lán navy blue syn
托洛茨基 託洛茨基 tuō luò cí jī Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917
沧 滄 cāng (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green / (literary) cold
缥 縹 piǎo (literary) light blue / (literary) light blue silk fabric
吴晗 吳晗 wú hán Wu Han (1909-1969), historian, author of biography of Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, hounded to his death together with several members of his family during the cultural revolution
青天霹雳 青天霹靂 qīng tiān pī lì thunder from a clear sky (idiom) / a bolt from the blue
宋教仁 sòng jiào rén Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913
黑五类 黑五類 hēi wǔ lèi the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
谭震林 譚震林 tán zhèn lín Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), PRC revolutionary and military leader, played political role after the Cultural Revolution
改良主义 改良主義 gǎi liáng zhǔ yì reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed to revolution)
郭小川 guō xiǎo chuān Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution
黻 fú (archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread
青出于蓝而胜于蓝 青出於藍而勝於藍 qīng chū yú lán ér shèng yú lán lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom) / fig. the student surpasses the master
武昌起义 武昌起義 wǔ chāng qǐ yì Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
天崩地裂 tiān bēng dì liè heaven falls and earth rends (idiom) / rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval syn
巴山夜雨 bā shān yè yǔ rain on Mt Ba (idiom) / lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
渤澥桑田 bó xiè sāng tián lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], Record of the Grand Historian) / time brings great changes / life's vicissitudes
碧海青天 bì hǎi qīng tiān green sea, blue sky (idiom) / sea and sky merge in one shade / loneliness of faithful widow
金枝玉叶 金枝玉葉 jīn zhī yù yè golden branch, jade leaves (idiom) / fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty syn
青天白日 qīng tiān bái rì (idiom) in broad daylight / in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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