红五类
Traditional form:
紅五類
Pinyin (reading):
hóngwǔlèi
Definitions:
- the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
Characters:
- 红 - red, vermillion; to blush, to flush; popular
- 五 - five; surname
- 类 - category, class, group, kind; similar to; to resemble
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