知识青年
Traditional form:
知識青年
Pinyin (reading):
zhīshiqīngnián
Definitions:
- educated youth; young intellectual
- (historical) urban youth with formal education who were sent to rural areas for re-education and labor during the Cultural Revolution (1960s–70s)
Characters:
- 知 - to know, to perceive, to comprehend
- 识 - knowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know
- 青 - nature's color; blue, green, black; young
- 年 - year; anniversary; a person's age
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