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知zi1青cing1

zi1 cing1zhī qīng

English

  1. educated youth (esp. those sent to work in rural areas during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 知識青年|知识青年[zhi1 shi5 qing1 nian2])
  2. sent-down or "educated" youth, the young people who left the urban districts to live and work in rural areas in China, beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 「知識青年」嘅簡稱，特指1950年代至文革結束，喺中國由城市下放到農村嘅青年，受過嘅教育未必係高等教育

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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