The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from紅衛兵 /红卫兵“red defense soldier; red guard”
- English todayhongweibing
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅衛兵 /红卫兵 (hóngwèibīng, “red defense soldier; red guard”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hongweibing
hong·wei·bingToday it means: A red guard, a member of a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution. Full definition →
Mandarin 紅衛兵 /红卫兵