"Revolt" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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革命 gé mìng to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) / CL:次[ci4]
叛逆 pàn nì to rebel / to revolt / a rebel
起义 qǐ yì uprising / insurrection / revolt
造反 zào fǎn to rebel / to revolt
反叛 fǎn pàn to rebel / to revolt
暴乱 bào luàn riot / rebellion / revolt
叛 pàn to betray / to rebel / to revolt
篡逆 cuàn nì to rebel / to revolt
发难 fā nàn to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
吴三桂 Wú Sān guì Wu Sangui (1612-1678), Chinese general who let the Manchus into China and helped them establish the Qing Dynasty, later leading a revolt against Qing in an effort to start his own dynasty
作乱 zuò luàn to start a rebellion / to rise in revolt
农民起义 nóng mín qǐ yì peasant revolt
张献忠 Zhāng Xiàn zhōng Zhang Xianzhong (1606-1647), leader of a late-Ming peasant revolt
民变 mín biàn mass uprising / popular revolt / civil commotion
官逼民反 guān bī mín fǎn a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom) / a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
逼上梁山 bī shàng liáng shān driven to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels / to drive to revolt / to force sb to desperate action
南昌起义 Nán chāng Qǐ yì Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
平叛 píng pàn to put down a revolt / to pacify a rebellion
陈桥兵变 Chén qiáo bīng biàn the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 / to found the Song dynasty
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