革 — Chinese character
革
gé
leather, animal hide; to reform; to remove
- Pinyin
- gé
- Radical
- 177 ⾰ (Leather)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 廿
- Formation
- pictographic — An animal being skinned
- Japanese
- 革 as a kanji
Common words with 革
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 革命 | gé mìng | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution |
| 改革 | gǎi gé | reform; measure word: 次 (cì), 种 (zhǒng), 项 (xiàng) |
| 变革 (變革) | biàn gé | to transform; to change |
| 革新 | gé xīn | to innovate; innovation |
| 反革命 | fǎn gé mìng | counterrevolutionary |
| 沿革 | yán gé | evolution of sth over time; course of development |
| 皮革 | pí gé | leather; 张 (zhāng) |
| 改革开放 (改革開放) | gǎi gé kāi fàng | reform and opening up (Chinese policy introduced in 1978) |
| 革命家 | gé mìng jiā | a revolutionary |
| 革命性 | gé mìng xìng | revolutionary |
| 民主革命 | mín zhǔ gé mìng | democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) |
| 土地改革 | tǔ dì gǎi gé | land reform |
English words written with 革
革 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 2 · I Ching 6 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Art of War 2.1
- Art of War 11.37
- Hexagram 33
- Hexagram 49
- Hexagram 50
- Mencius 2B.1
- Mencius 7B.4
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
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