The story
- Chinese · derived from知青
- English todayzhiqing
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 知青 (zhīqīng), the Chinese contraction of 知識青年 /知识青年 (zhīshi qīngnián, “intellectual youth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
zhiqing
zhi·qingToday it means: 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. Full definition →
Chinese 知青