zhiqing
Meaning
Noun
- A member of the "educated youth", the young Chinese sent from urban areas to work in poor villages as part of the PRC's Down to the Countryside Movement.
Related
Similar words
- educated youth
- sent-down youth
- rusticated youth
Origin
- From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 知青, the Chinese contraction of 知識青年
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