English
hongweibing
Hongweibing comes from Mandarin 紅衛兵 ‘red defense soldier’.
- Mandarinmodern紅衛兵hóngwèibīng‘red defense soldier’
- Englishearliest quotation 1981hongweibing
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern紅衛兵hóngwèibīng‘red defense soldier’
- Englishearliest quotation 1981hongweibing
Earliest quotation: 1981, Far Eastern Affairs, Moscow: Progress Publishers: “The Chinese are hastily obliterating all traces of hongweibing…”
Every English word from Mandarin 紅衛兵
Today it means
noun A red guard, a member of a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 紅衛兵 / hongweibing