打麻雀运动
Traditional form:
打麻雀運動
Pinyin (reading):
Dǎ Máquè Yùndòng
Definitions:
- the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進／大跃进 ( Dàyuèjìn) aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows
Characters:
- 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 麻 - hemp, flax, sesame; numb
- 雀 - sparrow
- 运 - to run; ship, transport; fortune, luck
- 动 - to move, to happen; movement, action
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