| | to revolve / to turn / to circle about / to walk about / classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm / classifier for repeated actions | HSK 6 |
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| | storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | 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 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | angular velocity / number of revolutions per minute | |
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| | hurricane / violent reform or revolution / violent movement or force | |
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| | Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命) | |
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| | cuckoo / revolution of a wheel | |
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| | Ding Ji (1917-1944), real name Li Baicen 李百岑, journalist based in Yanan, martyr of the revolution | |
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| | forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命, Xinhai Revolution of 1911 | |
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| | Huang Xing (1874-1916), revolutionary politician, close collaborator of Sun Yat-sen, prominent in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命, murdered in Shanghai in 1916 | |
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| | heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | orbital revolution | |
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| | to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | tinder / source of a fire / inflammable material / (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc) | |
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| | to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution) | |
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| | to drag sb before a public meeting to denounce, humiliate and physically abuse them (esp. during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋｜张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | cowshed / makeshift detention center set up by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution / (baseball) bullpen | |
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| | Red Guards (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976) | |
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| | our peasant friends (political term used in the early years of the Old Democratic Revolution, 1840-1919) / (Tw) (coll.) farmer | |
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| | the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists | |
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| | Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader | |
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| | fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan) | |
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| | capitalist roader (person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | anti-Qing / refers to the revolutionary movements in late 19th and early 20th century leading up to 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命 | |
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| | struggle, criticize, and transform (Cultural Revolution catchcry) | |
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| | Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution / wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨｜马南邨 | |
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| | Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses | |
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| | He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Zou Rong (1885-1905), a martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, died in jail in 1905 | |
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| | French Revolution (1789-1799) | |
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| | Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅｜鲁迅, academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films | |
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| | Lin Biao (1908-1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty | |
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| | Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution | |
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| | Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty | |
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| | Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913 | |
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| | Glorious Revolution (England, 1688) | |
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| | October Revolution | |
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| | May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校｜五七干部学校) | |
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| | Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830 | |
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| | Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) | |
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| | Misty Poetry, a post-Cultural Revolution poetry movement | |
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| | Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾｜乔治·奥威尔 | |
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| | north China army, a modernizing Western-style army set up during late Qing, and a breeding ground for the Northern Warlords after the Qinghai revolution | |
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| | rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Liao Mosha (1907-1990), journalist and communist propagandist, severely criticized and imprisoned for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | (Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution) | |
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| | Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Movement 新文化運動｜新文化运动 after the Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命 of 1911 | |
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| | model theater (operas and ballets produced during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs | |
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| | Russian cruiser Aurora, firing the shot signaling the 1917 revolution, a favorite of communist iconography | |
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| | (lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓｜邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗｜吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱｜袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords | |
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| | May 7 Cadre School (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校｜五七干校) | |
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| | Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾｜乔治·奥威尔 / also translated 動物農場｜动物农场 | |
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| | the Warlord government of Northern China that developed from the Qing Beiyang army 北洋軍閥｜北洋军阀 after the Xinhai revolution of 1911 | |
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| | Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968), writer, translator and art collector in Suzhou, a victim of the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | (of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | (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) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | reformism (i.e. favoring gradual change as opposed to revolution) | |
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| | political commissar (during Russian and Chinese communist revolutions) | |
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| | political training office (during Chinese revolution, since renamed political division 政治部) | |
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| | the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science | |
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| | a surface of revolution (math.) | |
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| | Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922) | |
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| | democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) | |
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| | French Revolution (1789) | |
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| | educated youth (sent to work in farms during the Cultural Revolution), abbr. for 知識青年｜知识青年 | |
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| | Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | (Cultural Revolution term) conference of activist representatives (abbr. for 積極分子代表大會｜积极分子代表大会) | |
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| | Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution | |
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| | red tourism, focused on sites in China associated with the Communist Revolution | |
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| | If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan) / fig. like father, like son | |
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| | old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) | |
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| | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)! / Your Majesty / His Majesty | |
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| | class division into proletariat and bourgeoisie class enemy, in use esp. during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), PRC revolutionary and military leader, played political role after the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) | |
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| | lit. the body is the revolution's capital / fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying) | |
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| | Deng Xiaoping Theory / Dengism / the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control | |
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| | social composition / social status (in Marxist theory, esp. using during the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | martyr to the revolution | |
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| | martyr of the revolution | |
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| | Han Aijing (1945-), notorious red guard leader during Cultural Revolution, spent 15 years in prison for imprisoning and torturing political leaders | |
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| | (dialect) prostitute from Guangdong (esp. one in Shanghai before the Revolution) (loanword from "handsome maid") | |
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| | pseudonym of Huang Xing 黃興｜黄兴, one of the heroes of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命 | |
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