red guard
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See also: Red Guard
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
red guard (plural red guards)
- A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.
- What on Earth could be next, the Chinese red guard-style maltreatment of language learners and yodelers?
- 2011, Henry Kissinger, On China[1], New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:
- In Beijing, Red Guard assaults destroyed 4,922 of the capital’s 6,843 designated “places of cultural or historical interest.” The Forbidden City itself was reportedly saved only by Zhou Enlai’s personal intervention.
Synonyms[edit]
- (from Mandarin Chinese) hongweibing, hungweiping
Translations[edit]
Red Guards (China)
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