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革命

革命

Chinese

leather; remove life; fate
simp. and trad.
(革命)
Literally: “to change destiny”.

Verb

革命

  1. to revolt

Noun

革命

  1. revolution

Adjective

革命

  1. (attributive) revolutionary

Derived terms


Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
かく
Grade: 6
めい
Grade: 3
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 革命 (kɛk mjængH, to switch from a ruling dynasty to a new one)

Pronunciation

Noun

革命 (hiragana かくめい, romaji kakumei)

  1. a revolution; a coup d'état
  2. one of the sankaku in traditional cosmology; a year often accompanied by change

Compounds

Descendants

See also

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Hanja

革命 (hyeongmyeong) (hangeul 혁명, revised hyeokmyeong, McCune-Reischauer hyŏkmyŏng, Yale hyekmyeng)

  1. Hanja form? of 혁명, “revolution”.