五七干校

Traditional form:

五七幹校

Pinyin (reading):

Wǔ Qī Gànxiào

Definitions:

• 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 ( Wǔ Qī Gànbù Xuéxiào))

Characters:

• 五 - five; surname
• 七 - seven
• 干 - arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade
• 校 - school; military field officer

Traditional characters:

• 五 - five; surname
• 七 - seven
• 幹 - arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade
• 校 - school; military field officer