Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hongweibing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hong-wei-bing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

"The Chinese are hastily obliterating all traces of hongweibing pogroms in Moslem mosques and other holy places. Mao's successors have been clamouring for Moslems to preserve the Islamic cultural heritage. The blame for all the excesses in the Islamic policy has been heaped upon the "gang of four" and Lin Biao."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅衛兵 /红卫兵 (hóngwèibīng, “red defense soldier; red guard”).

Word Breakdown

Root: -, 紅衛兵

Inflected Forms

hungweiping (alternative) hung-wei-ping (alternative) hung wei ping (alternative)

Questions

What does hongweibing mean?: 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.
Where does hongweibing come from?: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅衛兵 /红卫兵 (hóngwèibīng, “red defense soldier; red guard”).

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